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Alexis Demetriades

MA work

  • Artefacting (Grinding Stone, Jericho, Palestine, Middle Bronze Age)

    Artefacting (Grinding Stone, Jericho, Palestine, Middle Bronze Age), Alexis Demetriades (3D scan data from Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge)
    Modeling Foam

    Artefacting (Grinding Stone, Jericho, Palestine, Middle Bronze Age), Alexis Demetriades (3D scan data from Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge)
    Modeling Foam

Artefacting

A study of how digital artefacts grow on and erode scans of museum objects. By taking 3D scan data of a 4,000 year old grain grinding stone, translating it into a real object by using CNC (computer numerical control) milling, 3D scanning that object, CNCing that scan, and so on, the unique geological processes and ecology of apparently sterile environments and methods of reproduction express themselves.
Programme
Visual Communication

Info

  • MA Degree

    School

    School of Communication

    Programme

    MA Visual Communication, 2019

    Specialism

    visual-communication--illustration

  • My work examines museums, which are primarily tasked with ordering the world, and the chaotic wilderness of distorted time, weird rituals, and unique ecology that exists within them. I hope that by finding points of connection between museums and the cultures of other times and places that they display, we can be absorbed into a larger story while testing the foundations of institutional authority.

  • Degrees

  • BA Fine Art, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 2008

  • Experience

  • Medical illustrator, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, American College of Surgeons, University of Southern California, McGraw Hill, Springer Publishing, and others, 2008–Present; Illustrator, Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C., USA, 2011–2014

  • Exhibitions

  • Table Manners, Chalton Gallery, London, 2018; ( ) Scapes, Putney Bridge, London, 2018; Apologies in Advance, Iklektic, London, 2018; London Design Week, V&A, London, 2016; Illustrating Nature, Pacific Grove Natural History Museum, Pacific Grove, USA, 2012; Migration Study, Phantom Galleries, Los Angeles, 2011; The Known World, Helen Lindhurst Gallery, Los Angeles, 2010

  • Awards

  • First prize in surgery category, British Medical Association Book Awards, 2016

Registered Office: Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU