About work

Author's name
Stahl Stenslie (NO)
Work's name
Artguns – Criminal Aesthetics
Year of work
2016
Type of work
art as armament: performative sculpture and live 3D-printing of functional weapons
Work description

The Artguns project is criminal and wicked from the bottom up. It is against the law to make these guns. It is even more unlawful to use them. It is outrageously bad to use them on human targets. Or in the name of art. Then again, they look good. Criminally good. Who would not like them for a steal? Like any crime, these guns come at a cost. Independent of which end of the gun you are standing. The project is showing live, performative printing of functional guns, produced real-time ...read more

About author

Author's CV

Stahl Stenslie is an artist, curator and researcher specializing in experimental media art, interactive experiences and disruptive technologies. The keywords of his practice are somaesthetics, unstable media, transgression and the numinous. The technological focus in his works is on the discursive art of the recently possible - such as i) panhaptic communication, ii) somatic and holophonic soundspaces, and iii) disruptive, open source design such as his beautiful Artguns. His PhD is on Touch ...read more

Author's contact
stenslie@gmail.com
Author's URL
www.stenslie.net, www.bezane.net