Student Presenter(s): Sheraine Peart
Faculty Mentor: Robert Smith
Department: Digital Art and Design
School/College: College of Arts and Sciences, New York City

The Digital stone Project is an annual workshop that allows for 20 students and teachers to conduct research projects in the field of 3D printing in Marble in Tuscany Italy. My project consisted of researching the process of taking a sculpture from the computer modelling stage to the actual production stage as well as exploring the limits of the processes weak points. 3D printing in marble has two notable weak points, achieving thinness of the sculptural form and creating undercuts, that is, creating empty spaces under a sculpture. I created the sculpture "Roots" to test these two areas of weakness. My project discusses the process of 3D printing in Marble and how it differs from 3D printing in plastic. Additionally, it discusses how to address some of these weaknesses and how to design a sculpture to overcome these issues.