Before the name, there was the evidence.
Structural BUG Art archive: digital sculpture experiments and 3D-printed prototypes documented since 2014.
ARCHIVE / 2014
3D-printed prototypes · Printing process · Archive photographs
DIGITAL EVIDENCE
EVIDENCE CHAIN
01 — Numbered digital sculpture and OBJ files
02 — Rendered images linked to the model archive
03 — File metadata and directory records
04 — 3D-printed prototypes made from the digital source
2014 → 2026.08.10
Documented origin in 2014. Formal articulation and naming on August 10, 2026.
PUBLICATION RECORD
Louvre Unbound · Vol. 9
November 2026 · pp. 46–47
Published on @Yesterday.
Structural BUG Art is featured in the “Step into the World of” section of Louvre Unbound, Vol. 9. Across two pages, four digital sculptures and an introduction to Shuqing Shi’s practice present the deliberate manipulation of software failures as a method for generating evolving sculptural structures.