Output details
34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of Northampton
Wir Liegen auf Dem Dach. Artefact:
A suite of artworks
• 4 Digital photographic prints with pencil drawing, on heavyweight paper, 100cm x 200cm
The context of this body of research work lies within Fine Art Digital Printmaking. The research group FADE (Fine Art Digital Environment) at Chelsea College of Art generated a key context for this work, questioning artists’ relationship to digital surface during image making.
The work builds upon what Anne Friedberg describes as a shift from the physical desktop to virtual Screen (The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft, 2006). Friedberg’s text gives insights into the perceptual effects of works that have been made both digitally and materially. The aim is to question how the surface is perceived when a hand drawn image and digital image visually and materially collide. This work explores our the sense of physical external space, our associations of perspective, scale and sense of material weight. Drawings of collapsed building structures converge with landscapes digital images on the picture plane to create a visual and material dislocation; a spatial ambiguity where both digital and hand drawn image hover somewhere between each other in a state of perpetual transition and impermanence.
These outputs are brought together as they all emerge from this singluar body of practical research questioning the digital printed surface. The significance is verified by the various invitational national and international fine art printmaking exhibitions and projects. The Invitational exhibition 6th Graphic Biennial, Novosibirsk State Museum, Russia led to my receiving a digital print award by the international jury. I was subsequently invited as key artist case study within the 2 year AHRC funded project which was presented as symposium at the V&A, London and resulted in the publication The Personalised Surface within Fine Art Digital Printmaking, 2009, where one of these artworks is made as a case study on the DVD.
