In 3D printing technology, fabbers cross over to making physical products, building with bits of material in place of pixels.
It's as if there are ribbons of differently cut bits of material running through it, which is a little reminiscent of Stravinsky".
He composed his score in what he calls "unitary bits of material", each attached to a theme, character or idea, and each alive to further development.
In middle school, he used bits of material he got from a dime store to put together hats, one of which he gave to his mother to wear to the New York World's Fair in 1939.
But that quality brought out the ominous undertones in Antheil's Jazz Symphony, whose relentless repetitions of small bits of material suggest a reflection on jazz in the age of mechanical reproduction.
Troemel and Christiansen's apartment filled up with leftover bits of material from Scott Projects' shows, so they began to use them to make what Troemel describes as "trash sculptures".
Description of the studio: Mondrian had made a good deal of the furniture himself, partly to economize and partly because he liked to tinker, and he showed a lot of ingenuity in using odd bits of material, such as old orange crates, lenghts of lath, etc.
The first part, Show, gives us an impressive range of tricks, from Russian roulette with a goldfish and a bowl of acid, to a recreation of Jesus's popular turning-water-into-wine routine and bits of material that involve apparent mind-reading live through Facebook and Twitter.
Wilson brought a 3-D printer, and as he finds himself casting about for useful items to make iPad wall mounts, a Scotch-tape dispenser he concedes that watching the extruder swing back and forth, depositing tiny bits of material with each pass, is "maybe not a terrible analogy for our stay here".
She also altered it herself several times (it was danced variously as a trio, a solo and in relays) – an idea that she furthered in works that were inherently mutable, such as Continuous Project – Altered Daily, which accumulated bits of material as they were performed, depending on the performers themselves.
