Friday, March 11, 2016
One of the greatest art heists of our time was actually a data hack
Ars Technica: Last month, two artists grabbed headlines across the world by announcing that they had snuck a hacked Kinect Sensor into the Neues Museum in Berlin and done a guerrilla 3D scan of the bust of Queen Nefertiti, a precious artwork from ancient Egypt. Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles called their work The Other Nefertiti and released their data file to world. Now anyone can have an incredibly high-quality reproduction of the sculpture, or remix it to make new artworks. But immediately, experts raised questions about the scan—it was just too high quality for a Kinect. Al-Badri and Nelles inflamed speculation when they refused to share more details about their scanning techniques.
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I wonder why museums are so protective of their 3D scans of art pieces. I don’t feel like someone is going to no longer want to see the authentic sculpture because they saw a 3D model or 3D printed replica of it. I guess they could be worried about forgeries, but I’m guessing that isn’t a huge risk. It seems like if anything, releasing 3D scans of famous art pieces would make people more excited about seeing the real sculpture, as well as the other art work that the museum has. It also would give a lot of opportunity for people to create art based on the scans. I think any museum that releases such scans would get a lot of positive publicity and attention. I don’t know enough to say whether the guerilla scan was taken the way the people who released it said it was, but I think it is cool that it is available, and I’m curious why it wasn’t available already.
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