Handmade Future Studio - Art Show Opening Party

Description

Explore volumetric portraits, 3d printed sculpture, vintage tech and puzzles all from the mind of Lisa Niedermeyer.

Featuring collaborators: Fatima Zaidi, EnSeanté/Sean Owens, Roque López, Chiara Kruger, Ana Larousse, Ash Perry, and Lili Niedermeyer.

An invitation to look closely, find different stories within the same image, and have fun guessing source materials.

Come experience some incredible art, enjoy poetry by Sean Owens, live music by Douglas Guilbeault, and catch up with the community. You won't want to miss this one.

About Lisa Niedermeyer

Lisa Niedermeyer is a San Francisco artist and tech educator. She makes portraits and custom sculptures by 3D scanning people in the dark.

Niedermeyer’s work draws on a love of inherited objects as source materials, making things with her hands, and her ongoing study of computer vision.

She first tried 3D scanning at an MIT Media Lab hackathon 10 years ago. While others explored the default uses of the scanner Niedermeyer created her first volumetric portraits in total darkness, working in the only room without motion-sensor lights: a lactation booth. MIT invited her back the next year as a judge. She has scanned in the dark ever since.

Niedermeyer is a teacher at Apple and a resident artist at Queer Arts Featured in the Castro, where she offers one-on-one volumetric portrait sessions after hours.