http://www.jenstark.com/sculpture_17.html

by Jen Stark

http://www.deitch.com/files/slideshows/swoon_work_5.jpg

by swoon

http://www.123buero.com/img/projects/PublicProjects/PublicProjects_06.jpg

by 123buero

http://www.thomasdemand.de/

by Thomas Demand

http://www.fredriksterner.com/Bildmaterial/odetolaserprinter/laser3.jpg

by Fredrik Sterner

http://anfischer.com/wp-content/uploads/indizes/anfischer_indizes_1.jpg

by Andreas Fischer

http://www.deffekt.ch/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/p8/p7181409.jpg

by Martin Fuchs / deffect

http://www.pierrevanni.com/portfolio.jpg

by Pierre Vanni

Paper sculpturing has become commonplace in contemporary visual culture. Paper is not only seen as planar two-dimensional canvas any more to write, print or draw on. It rather becomes an affordable and multi-functional material for uses such as building miniature models to sculpture surfaces and large scale objects. Artists using paper as their favorite medium come from very different fields. Swoon is part of an international street art scene but also gets featured in various galleries. On the street the decay of the material becomes part of the artwork what is not given in the gallery though. So location influences the aesthetics of her work.
In Thomas Demands photographic work, paper and location play a very different role. He uses paper to build exact models of locations that were specific happenings once took place. Lightning and perspective let the photographs look almost like reality.
The examples of Andreas Fischer and Martin Fuchs applied digital production methods and used data input to create specific shapes. Thus paper sculpture becomes a kind of physical representation of information graphs or mathematical calculation.

Robert Lang talks about Origami as art-form or form of sculpture which has been around for hundreds of years but totally changed it’s face once combined with mathematics. The mathematic rules of modern Origami however could be defined in simple four laws: The two colorability, at any interior vertex the ‘mountain-’ and ‘valley-folds’ always differ two, angles around a vertex sum up to a straight line and a sheet can never penetrate a fold (no self-intersection at overlaps).
These rules are as simple as an computer could understand them what makes Origami a mean of digital production, rapid prototyping and simulation not only in areas like science and technology.
To enable a kind of origami on demand Robert Lang developed ‘treemaker’ - a program to generate crease patterns after a given definition of a stick-figure-like version of one’s design. The basic principal of a crease pattern is to create as many flaps as needed for the final object so what ‘treemaker’ mainly does is to calculate and output the packing of circles on the sheet.
(www.ted.com/index.php/talks/robert_lang_folds_way_new_origami.html)