Paul Higham
New York, New York
Higham turns brain waves into sculptures, and this piece depicts someone’s neural activity while reading a poem. This rapidly growing field is known as data sculpture.
Bathsheba Grossman
Somerville, Mass.
One advantage of digital sculpture is that it allows artists to create forms that wouldn’t be possible to make by hand. “The undercuts in this piece just couldn’t be created in traditional sculpture,” says Visser. Grossman studied math at Yale before becoming an artist.