EIGER Technical Center for the Arts did this for Michelangelo, consider what we could do for you.
Each age of every great
civilization has been documented through its rich
cultural history. Of the great treasures of each
age, the arts rank among our most valuable resources
for understanding of the past and universal
enrichment that follows. It is difficult to imagine
the western world, for example, without Bach,
Mozart, Rembrandt, Shakespeare, etc. The age in
which we live, the "age of uncertainty" is no less
important, though in many ways, great artists,
composers, etc., are disenfranchised from
participation in one of the most significant of the
definers of contemporary culture, technology. At the
surface, all is available for the arts without undue
effort on behalf of its investigators through the
media and daily interaction with others. Technology
for the creative artist, could take on the
significance of Engineering for Leonardo da Vinci,
or new mathematical models as they related to the
development of a system of harmonic progressions
that culminated in the works of Bach. On the present
path, art in its diverse forms are largely focused
on "pop" culture with little meaning beyond its
small moment in history. Immediate profitability and
gratification have replaced larger values and focus
on artistic merit of a "permanent" nature. To
provide a venue for possibilities of enduring
cultural values, the Technical Center for the Arts
is dedicated.
The Michelangelo Project: In the Image and Likeness
Please take two minutes to view an interesting video describing how prototyping is being utilized to save precious artwork by scanning and reproducing it in a non-fragile material such as bronze. The Michelangelo Project: In the Image and Likeness incorporated efforts of the EIGERlab, Art Castings of Illinois, Tuck Lang, Sculptor, Professor Emeritus, Indiana University South Bend, R. Bruce Duncan, President Chicago Appraisers Association, Mike Cobert, Business Incubator, EIGERlab and Dr. Harry Spell, Vice President and Lydia Koepke, Assistant Manager of Art Castings of Illinois. “According to Professor Lang, “Art is the family photo album of the Human Race. It’s who we were which means who we are; it’s our job to preserve that.”
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