May 3: Chicago artist to give 3D printing presentation

Learn how 3D printing is used in creating art and design at a College of Lake County Digital Media and Design department guest lecture, "The Re-Materialization of the Art Object," by Tom Burtonwood.

The lecture will be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 3 in Room C003 (Lower Level C Wing) on the Grayslake Campus, 19351 W. Washington St. and is free and open to the public.

Burtonwood is an artist and assistant professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His 3D printing work explores the production, transmission, dissemination and reception of cultural works experienced through the lens of digital forms of fabrication. Burtonwood will discuss how a profound shift in making and manufacturing offers new opportunities to produce works, distribute them and engage with new audiences and communities.

His 3D printed publications are included in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Thomas J Watson Library; The Boston Athanaeum, Boston; The Insitut for Aestetik, Aarhus, Denmark; Yale University Library; MIT Library; and the Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is a contributor to Make Magazine and his reviews are included in the Make Magazine guides to 3D Printing 2014 and 2015.

For more information, contact Michael Kozien, Digital Media and Design professor, at (847) 543-2553 or com643@clcillinois.edu. For information on DMD courses at CLC, visit http://www.clcillinois.edu/programs/dmd.