Joseph Flaherty profiles artist Matthew Plummer-Fernandez, who recently created a modern-day Venus of Willendorf using Google Images and a 3-D printer:
Flaherty discovered an online movement of tinkerer-artists:
Plummer-Fernandez sees his work as part of the New Aesthetic, a loose, emerging movement concerned with bringing the visual elements of digital technology and the internet into the physical world. Unlike other art movements that emerged in physical locations–the Cubists congregating at the Salon d’Automne, for example, or Pop Artists talking shop in Soho lofts–practitioners of the New Aesthetic meet primarily on Tumblr. ”Its a strange phenomenon but its definitely happening and helping a scene take shape,” says Plummer-Fernandez “Not only do you connect to artists, but you share ideas with writers, researchers and curators.”
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