Our public space showcases ongoing collaborations with, and
ongoing projects by students, researchers, artists, makers,
entrepreneurs and artists. We hope to inspire our visitors and
successfully highlight some of the creativity and diversity of
Sliperiet, as well as the possibilities afforded by our technical
infrastructure.
Hang Printer
Our lobby has been the scene for an experiment by innovator
Torbjørn Ludvigsen who visited us as part of our innovation
project +Project. His invention Hangprinter
allows flexible and large scale 3Dprinting through a spiderlike
setup where the machine is suspended on wires. These wires can be
attached to many different surfaces, or to poles, resulting in the
opportunity to acchieve a large vertical and horizontal print area
tindependent of rails or other special scaffolding.
The hangprinter has been printing a 'tower of Babel', that ended
up measuring 4615mm tall: we believe this to be the world's tallest
continously 3Dprinted object of its' kind. The tower will be on
display at Sliperiet until August 2017.
Torbjørns development blog here
Build your own 3Dprinter! Source files here
CAD-file for tower here
Symbiotic Interaction
Artist duo Maria Castellanos and Alberto Valverde have spent the
winter with SoftLab and Sliperiet through an artist in residency
programme made possible by the Hakon Swenssons foundation. The
residency resulted in the project Symbiotic
Interaction including two pieces of wearable art that will be
on display at Sliperiet until late spring. More information about
the project can be found on the artists' website.
