BIO 

Dave Marin is an artist, designer, fabricator, model maker, and professor. Dave studied at The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Cranbrook Academy of Art receiving BFA and MFA degrees. As an artist he builds and photographs scale model dioramas. His creative practice includes prototyping for clients and exhibition display design. As a Professor of Modeling Technology, he teaches design and making in the School of Constructed Environments at Parsons School of Design. Dave explores materials and manufacturing processes, scales of production, and integration of digital fabrication with traditional making methods. His making and material research is focussed on the recycling and reuse of waste, investigating plastics and biopolymers. In all his work Dave uses technologies combined and borrowed from art, design, and manufacturing blending philosophies of making understanding that creativity is the act of combining what has not been yet assembled.