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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of Northampton
Untitled digital prints. Exhibited at Viewfinder exhibition.
1. (untitled) Two 6ftx3ft 24 image digital prints and two 40”x30” digital prints
2. (untitled) Six 32”x24” digital prints
3. (untitled) Two 40”x30” and two 32”x24” digital prints
Rationale for Grouping
Viewfinder assembles academics from leading universities, to explore situations where the saturation of digital media has eroded traditional taxonomies of media specificity and material engagement. It investigates the position of artists whose work now returns from a digital space towards a physical manifestation, interrogating creative intersections between digital and analogue practices reflecting upon the nature of representation. This is particularised through a relationship with the material surface of print/painting and a post-indexical consideration of the photographic. All three exhibitions have the same underlying intention however, the work I exhibited was subject to change at each venue each attempting to explore further the boundaries for a dialogue concerning digital technologies and representation.
Viewfinder Exhibition 1 - Artspace H, Seoul, Korea, June 2011
My work explored a new image and/or space emerging from digital software but using an initial source of paintings. A space is derived via software and painting which is a hybrid space depending on both but belonging fully to neither.
This work was further disseminated in a talk by Nicholas Devison at the Seoul Women’s University during the exhibition.
Viewfinder 2, Ruskin
My new prints further explored relationships between an original image and digital variations/interpretations. The new images are easily mistaken for images of my paintings but have an entirely different source. The aim was to create confusion concerning the image, its point of origin and the role of digital reproduction.
This research was further explored and disseminated at a symposium during the Viewfinder exhibition at the Ruskin Gallery. Panelists included Professor Paul Coldwell from University of the Arts London, Gill Saunders (senior curator, V&A Museum) and some exhibitors.
Viewfinder 3
My work further explored uncertainty concerning the point of origin for the digital prints. The prints had a strong suggestion of landscape which considered with previous prints took uncertainty over the point of origin even further inviting misleading readings in the viewer.
