Artist and designer Daniel Widrig is collaborating with Stratasys to create a futuristic 3D- printed art collection. The collection, entitled “Descendants,” is due to be unveiled at the upcoming “GLOBALE: Exo-Evolution” exhibition, which will be held at ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany, opening on Friday, Oct. 30. Exploring a futuristic context where technological development and computational capacities continue to spiral, Descendants addresses the increasing possibility of superior artificial intelligence and technological singularity, and how future synthetic bodies might look and feel.

The elaborate humanoid figures were developed by overlapping high-resolution 3D scans of male and female figures with intricate digital compositions. The pieces were 3D-printed using Stratasys’ color, multi-material 3D- printing technology. This enabled Widrig to produce the complex geometries of each piece in a range of materials in life-size human scale. Drawing inspiration from both human form and abstract futuristic structures, Widrig combined color with rigid and flexible materials — achievable through Stratasys’ color, multi-material 3D-printing technology — to create the fluid, human-like characteristics of the pieces, while also enabling Widrig to portray an alien presence.