World Maker Faire New York 2012

Making Films from 2D and 3D-printed Spinning Sculptures

Location: ZONE C MAKER SQUARE

Eric Dyer makes films from spinning sculptures. Come check out his shorts, discover how they were made, and see a couple of the 3D-printed hand-painted sculptures created for The Bellows March.

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About the Maker(s)

Eric Dyer

Artist

Eric Dyer is an artist, filmmaker, experimental animator, and educator. His award-winning films have screened internationally at numerous festivals, including the Chicago International Film Festival, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, South by Southwest, and the Ottawa, Annecy, Melbourne, and London International Animation Festivals. His work has also been exhibited at the Exploratorium, the Hirshhorn, the Smithsonian National Gallery of Art, Ars Electronica, and the Cairo and Venice Biennales. He received his MFA in 2004 from the Mount Royal School of Art at MICA, was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in filmmaking for travel to Denmark in 2005, and was a New Frontier Artist at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. As a member of the Visual Arts faculty at UMBC in Baltimore, he teaches animation and brings students and symphony orchestras together to create music visualizations and animation performances. In 2008 his students presented with the Brooklyn Philharmonic. He has taught workshops at institutions such as Connecticut College and CalArts. Dyer has received Animasivo, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and Ammerman Center for Art and Technology commissions and is currently an Imaging Research Center Summer Research Fellow, Creative Capital Artist, and Guggenheim Fellow.

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