Rottlace

Rottlace is a family of masks designed for Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk. Inspired by Björk’s most recent album -- Vulnicura -- the Mediated Matter group explored themes associated with self-healing and expressing ‘the face without a skin.’ One of the masks from the series was selected for Björk’s stage performance at the Tokyo Miraikan Museum, and 3D printed by Stratasys using multi-material printing. This process enables the production of elaborate combinations of graded properties distributed over geometrically complex structures within a single object. Graded and tunable material properties are achieved through custom software as well as heterogeneous material modelling workflows. Combined, this computational framework enables micron-scale control of 3D printable material placement over highly complex geometric domains. This enables the design and 3D printing of complex, large-scale objects with continuous variations of modulus and transparency, within a single build.