3D Printing Industry has followed the work of innovative fashion designer and PhD researcher Mingjing Lin forsome time。
Most recently, I attended anexclusive performance ofFarewell My Concubine由北京歌剧歌手在Royal College of Art伦敦(RCA) to see how Mingjing Lin and Tsai-Chun Huang are working with Polish SLS 3D printing company,Sinterit。
The resultingpleated and woven garments combine traditional techniques with 3D printed textiles made on the Sinterit LISA using TPU. After the performance I askedmingjing linabout the use of 3D printing in art, fashion and mixing technology with tradition.
3D打印行业：选择3D打印来制作服装的原因是什么？
mingjing lin：我一直在为我的博士学位发现在纺织品中使用3D打印的创新使用。但是，我不仅要在时装秀中看到3D打印的纺织品（在其中仅佩戴步行设计，而且身体运动比较少得多），我想测试或挑战是否可以在更有趣的身体实践中使用3D打印的纺织品，3D打印能否具有更多的流动性和更多的动态。而且我相信这项技术在身体运动方面还有更多可提供的。
Tsai chun and I chose the costumes for Beijing Opera firstly because it followed my route since last year,际时期，，，，在其中，我结合了3D打印，中国Qipao和身体表现。
我们认为北京歌剧是一种更合适的媒体，可以转化流动性，因为它美丽，精致，更有意义的动作和肢体语言。同样，几个世纪以来，北京歌剧院的服装都没有改变，我们质疑，更现代化的设计和技术元素是否可以帮助北京歌剧院吸引更广泛和更年轻的观众。
3DPI: How does 3D printing fit into your practice as an artist?
ML：I wouldn’t describe myself as an artist, maybe researcher is a more suitable title. I was against cutting-edge technology for a while, and many of my designs were based on handicraft.
I really love the tactility of material, I want to touch, feel the life of things, the raw edge, nature, the Wabi-sabi*, for example, inspired me alot. But once I tried 3D printing, I just can’t let it go, since 3D printing really offers me opportunities to design the things out of imagination. Many of the geometries and pattern you could hardly see in nature, or impossible to make by hand, or just a machine error, a serendipity. So as mentioned, the combination of craft and technology can be found easily in this research.
And the more exciting fact is that with the development of technology, I could access various soft material and advanced digital modelling tools. In this project I was really lucky to try the soft SLS material from Sinterit, and had the chance to discuss the design with parametric designers Peng Xie and Filippo Nassetti.
3DPI: What has been the reaction (by the Opera Company and others) to the work?
ML：我采访了我们的一位表演者，她说她很少的时候是由北京歌剧大师教的，她说：“如果您别无选择，请穿上破坏的服装，但绝不是不合适的服装。”
看来北京歌剧有非常强大的法规，规则和格式。但相反，人们仍然很感兴趣。我知道很难让他们接受截然不同的东西，但我并不期望破坏传统。传统是传统，人们喜欢它，让我们保持原样。我对提供不同的东西更感兴趣。它既不是西方也不是西方，也不是工艺，也不是技术，而是其他地方的混合性。
3DPI: What are you working on at the moment and what is your next project?
ML：At the moment I am analyzing the data I collected from the performance, and will then write about it. And the next project, definitely will still relate to 3D printed fashion and textiles, performance and cultural exchange.
3DPI: How would you like to see 3D printing advance?
ML：I’d like to see more interesting materials, so that I could use them in bodily practices.
More information aboutmingjing linis available here。
*侘寂是一个美学概念ometimes described as flawed beauty. The perspective can evoke transience, imperfection and embracing the change that occurs in objects over time.
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