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I interviewed Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, the founder of The Next Web, as a source for my Master of Arts thesis. But I couldn’t resist showing him my work too! He wrote this article on TNW about our meeting.
Web Space – Facebook.com (22-8-2016)
8 x 9 x 6 cm
3D printed PLA electroplated with gold
Web Space – Google.com (22-8-2016)
8 x 10 x 5 cm
3D printed PLA electroplated with gold
I’ve been wondering for a while what the world inside a computer would look like. Would the directory structure form some kind of landscape, with hills and mountains? While I didn’t end up investigating the folder hierarchy on my computer, this question made me look differently at the world of web pages.
Web pages share a similarity to the folder structure inside your computer, which is their hierarchical nature. In addition to that, elements of a web page have dimensions and are part of a visual layout. So will I really discover a landscape this time?
Web Space – Boing Boing (17-05-2016) by Jip de Beer
#1 in series ‘Web Spaces: 3D Printed Web Pages’
Based on http://boingboing.net
20cm x 6cm x 5.5cm, unique
To the Work in Progress exhibition by Platform Minerva I’ve contributed Web Spaces, a series of 3D printed webpages in combination with Architectural Explorations, a dual-screen interactive installation.
The goal here is to get everything I’ve been working on recently out of my studio. I put it all into one room, to get an overview and reflect on the works.
Web Spaces – 3D Printed Web Pages is a project I’ve been working on during the Summer Sessions 2016 residency. There’s a nice article about it on the V2_ webpage which introduces the project like this:
Jip de Beer’s Web Spaces is an ongoing investigation into the structure of web pages. How can three dimensional beings, like you and me, explore the virtual landscape of web pages? By rendering the building blocks of a web page in three dimensions, the architecture beneath its surface is revealed.
“Never has the interaction with a web page been so physical”
For Real
44 x 44 x 27 cm
100% Recycled
Corrugated Cardboard
Millimeter precision
Laser cut
*No need for VR viewer
