Artist creates 'guinea pig' work for researchers to experiment on

It is not often that you hear of an artist who creates a sculpture specifically for scientists to experiment on, but that is precisely what the UK artist Tom Lomax did in 2013 when he created Out of the Cauldron, an open-access work that anyone with a 3D printer can produce. The sculpture is now helping researchers studying the long-term preservation of works created using rapid prototyping technologies, which todays artists are increasingly incorporating into their practice. Many of these work