YearArtist nameCollection
2016
Bassel Khartabil
#NEWPALMYRA
DimensionsEditionsLocation
Height: 225cm Width: 85cm Depth: 85cm
1
St. Louis
MediumLinkExhibition
3D Printed Sculpture, Virtual Model
Creative Commons Summit 2016
Creative Commons Summit 2017
Distributed Systems
Exhibit Columbus 2018
KINESIS 2018
Fabricator name
Jim Ellis
Jon Phillips
Annie Schneider
Barry Threw
#NEWPALMYRA
About this artwork

Based on the work of Bassel Khartabil; in collaboration with re:3d and Creative Commons.

As section of the Tetrapylon from Palmyra, Syria, produced by the #NEWPALMYRA project at http://newpalmyra.org, and first shown at the Creative Commons Summit in Toronto. https://creativecommons.org/2017/04/28/new-palmyra/

Text from Gray Area Festival 2018 #distributedsystems exhibition.

The Tetrapylon is an archeological monument in Palmyra, Syria, erected during the renovations of Diocletian at the end of the third century.Together with re:3d, an Austin-based 3D printing company, and Creative Commons, #NEWPALMYRA has produced a 200 pound, 7.5 feet tall 3D rendering of one of the Palmyra Tetrapylons. This version further enshrines this creative realization of the cultural heritage of Palmyra into a cryptocurrency blockchain, distributing it into a global ledger to ensure it lives on.#NEWPALMYRA, a community platform dedicated to the virtual remodeling and creative use of architecture from the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, was begun in 2005 by Bassel Khartabil, a Palestinian-Syrian open source software developer, educator, and free culture advocate. Working with the publisher Al-Aous and a team of artists in Damascus, Khartabil began remodeling the endangered ruins of Palmyra in 3D until 2012, when he was unlawfully imprisoned by the Syrian government. Much of this work was never published, though Bassel was committed to its free dissemination and use. In 2015, Khartabil was executed by the Assad regime.

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