As a counter-intervention to imperial cleptomaniac continuities in European museums, two artists scanned the head of Nefertiti clandestinely in the Neues Museum Berlin without the permission of the Museum by using a portable scanner - a hacked Kinect.
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Nefertiti for everyone. – Artists release the 3D data of Nefertiti's Head!
Some called it the most ethical art heist... and put them as the Robin Hoods of antiquities. To this day, nobody knows for sure what occurred for real.
The Neues Museum in Berlin today does not allow open access to the data from their scan of the original head. The artists released the data in the public domain under creative commons. Therefore they scanned the head of Nefertiti clandestinely in the Neues Museum Berlin.
Here you will find a dataset of Nefertiti as cultural commons:
nefertitihack.alloversky.com
“The Other Nefertiti” is an artistic intervention by
Jan Nikolai Nelles and Nora Al-Badri
“With the data leak as a part of this counter-narrative within our investigation
we want to activate the artefact to inspire a critical re-assessment of today’s conditions and to overcome the colonial notion of possession in Germany,” the two artists say.
#nefertitiHack
hyperallergic.com/274635/artists-covertly-scan-bust-of-nefertiti-and-release-the-data-for-free-online/
nytimes.com/2016/03/02/arts/design/other-nefertiti-3d-printer.html?_r=0
