Poet and artist Christian Lavigne created the first artistic stereolithography in France in 1994, and in 1997 co-founded INTERSCULPT, a worldwide biennial for interactive and simultaneous computer sculpture. Regeneration du Monde, 1996-98, a tiny honey colored sterolithograph, is the first piece of a three-part sculpture, whose form is based on the image of a drop of fluid falling on a splayed support.  The entire triptych was translated into a more sturdy aluminum cast through the lost wax process in Regeneration du Monde, 1998-99.  These primordial sculptures represent the great cosmic cycle of  eternal rebirth.  According to Parisian Lavigne, “The symbolism of the world’s restoration ceremonies: fire, rain, sperm, soil, etc., are elements meant to defeat the darkness and the sterility which threaten the universe.”  The basic design is an allusion to the impregnating element and its receiving matrix.  The second piece of the triptych is the same shape, crossed by spirals, inclined at an angle.  The third piece is crossed by lightning inclined at an angle.  Lavigne plans to have these sculptures simultaneously printed in Paris, the United States and Australia. Lavigne is the main ambassador of real and virtual sculpture in Europe. (M>M)