The Digital Stone Project and Garfagnana Innovazione are collaborating for the sixth time to bring artists, designers and architects, to the historic Garfagnana region of Italy to work with new technology and world-renowned Tuscan marble. The exhibition “CNC – CarboNatodiCalcio” is the result of an intensive one-month long residency in which each artist produced a marble sculpture carved with a 7-axis robot arm and finished by hand. This is a unique collaboration between artists, engineers and the advanced technologies at Garfagnana Innovazione. Together they integrated ancient techniques with contemporary digital practice. These new strategies of expression are supplemented with rich formal approaches and theoretical constructs.  These artists have repurposed software and machinery designed for the aerospace and automotive industries to the humanistic purpose of art. They collaborated with robotics engineer Gabriel Ferri (Garfagnana Innovazione) to create all of the computational data that drives the robotic cutting arm. In addition to using use Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Computer Aided Machinery (CAM) the artists have also employed direct modeling, scanning, VR and animation software to develop these sculptures. The works are experimental, exploratory, and visually dynamic.

The exhibition is open every day with free admission, from 30 June to 30 July 2018, at Villa Bertelli in via Mazzini 200 in Forte dei Marmi, from 9.00am to 1.00pm and 3.30pm to 11.00pm.