SMOUT ALLEN
INFRACTUS
Methodology 1. Research into the V&A Cast Courts collection and nineteenth-century copying and reproduction techniques; research into contemporary digital copying and reproduction techniques
This project began by thoroughly researching contemporary methodologies for recording and site-surveying, such as triangulation, photography and digital photogrammetry. Similar research was undertaken into modes of artefact production from mould-making and plaster casting methods of artefact production, both historical and contemporary. Technologies suitable for Infractus were ultimately chosen in conversation with the exhibition curators of A World of Fragile Parts and ScanLAB Projects who have unparalleled expertise in scanning material artefacts and buildings and reproducing them on web platforms and in immersive installations and objects.
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19 Casting marks resulting from the use of multiple moulds are visible in many artefacts in the V&A Cast Courts, such as this bust of Piero di Cosimo de’Medici 1453 (sculpted) 1899 (cast).
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