I do a lot of 3D printed and laser cut art (see http://deviantcartography.com http://deviantcartography.com). Nearly everything I do can be easily physically re

I do a lot of 3D printed and laser cut art (see http://deviantcartography.com http://deviantcartography.com). Nearly everything I do can be easily physically reproduced with the right source files, or even with a bit of work you could replicate each piece from the source data. I find these implications fascinating. It's not all that different from the easy reproducibility of photos or digital prints, but it feels different now that that same reproducibility is moving into the realm of physical sculpture. My gut is that artists should figure out how to embrace reproducibility, but how that will play out with sculpture is unclear to me. I highly recommend Cory Doctorow's quick read "Information Doesn't Want to be Free" and particularly his metaphor of the dandelion vs mammals for what I think is the right general direction for artists in an age of instant reproducibility.