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Printing with tonalli: Reproducing featherwork from precolonial Mexico using structural colorants (2023)
Journal Article
Trujillo-Vazquez, A., Abedini, F., Pranovich, A., Parraman, C., & Klein, S. (2023). Printing with tonalli: Reproducing featherwork from precolonial Mexico using structural colorants. Colorants, 2(4), 632-653. https://doi.org/10.3390/colorants2040033

Two of the most significant cases of extant 16th-century featherwork from Mexico are the so-called Moctezuma’s headdress and the Ahuizotl shield. While the feathers used in these artworks exhibit lightfast colors, their assembly comprises mainly orga... Read More about Printing with tonalli: Reproducing featherwork from precolonial Mexico using structural colorants.

RGB colour printing and halftoning for the reproduction of structural colour images (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Parraman, C., Klein, S., Vazquez, A., & Fuller, H. (2023, June). RGB colour printing and halftoning for the reproduction of structural colour images. Presented at Color Impact 2023, Rochester Institute of Technology

Commercial CMYK halftone printing involves additive and subtractive colour mixing that requires the optical mixing of primary colour hues using different-sized dots to obtain variations in reflected colour. Structural colour, as seen in nature, such... Read More about RGB colour printing and halftoning for the reproduction of structural colour images.

Near and far: An exhibition of artworks made by the printmaking staff at the University of the West of England (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Klein, S., Trujillo Vazquez, A., Davis, A., Paz, A., Buxton, A., Goodman, B., …Arteaga, R. Near and far: An exhibition of artworks made by the printmaking staff at the University of the West of England. [Print]. Exhibited at Bower Ashton Gallery, University of the West of England, Bristol. 13 March 2023 - 24 March 2023. (Unpublished)

The exhibition by printmaking staff at the University of the West of England has become an annual event. At the end of the last exhibition the next one seems far away. But time flies and suddenly March is very near again, and panic begins. The theme... Read More about Near and far: An exhibition of artworks made by the printmaking staff at the University of the West of England.

Maxwell’s disappointment and Sutton’s accident (2022)
Journal Article
Klein, S., Elter, P., & Trujillo Vazquez, A. (2022). Maxwell’s disappointment and Sutton’s accident. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 55(49), Article 491002. https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/aca8db

It has almost become somewhat of an urban legend or internet myth that James Clerk Maxwell created the first colour image and had demonstrated this at the Royal Institution in London in May 1861. He did present something, but what? In ‘The scientific... Read More about Maxwell’s disappointment and Sutton’s accident.

Kolekcja Mini Print Cantabria W Lublinie (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
Klein, S. Kolekcja Mini Print Cantabria W Lublinie. [Print]. Exhibited at Lublin. 20 October 2022 - 20 November 2022. (Unpublished)

I am just passing through (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
Klein, S. I am just passing through. [Print]. Exhibited at Impact 12 conference, University of the West of England. 20 September 2022 - 24 September 2022. (Unpublished)

Covid has reminded everyone that our lives are finite. It made me reflect on what I will leave behind. I want to be remembered. I want to leave visible traces which are typically for me, even though I am just passing through. Lockdown made me return... Read More about I am just passing through.

Catching the light (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
Klein, S., Fuller, H., Kozlovska, E., & Trujillo Vazquez, A. Catching the light. [Printed]. Exhibited at Impact 12 conference, University of the West of England. 20 September 2022 - 24 September 2022. (Unpublished)

Every image catches the light. Light is what we see. It is an energy which only forms an image in our heads when it interacts with our environment and is translated in our brains into a fantasy of the world. How do we catch such an elusive entity?... Read More about Catching the light.

Catalogo V Mini Print 22 (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
Klein, S., & Fuller, H. Catalogo V Mini Print 22. [Print]. Exhibited at Santander, Spain. 1 September 2022 - 31 December 2022. (Unpublished)

A new edition, the fifth!... It has been a long road... A road that, when traveling, suddenly and dramatically became a complex and difficult journey. In these years we have had to endure a terrible pandemic, which took the lives of many and chan... Read More about Catalogo V Mini Print 22.

Maxwell's disappointment and Sutton's accident (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Klein, S. (2022, May). Maxwell's disappointment and Sutton's accident. Paper presented at Print in Art, Industry and Science, Online

It has almost become somewhat of an urban legend or internet myth that James Clerk Maxwell created the first colour image and had demonstrated this at the Royal Institution in London in May 1861. He did present something, but what? In ‘The scientific... Read More about Maxwell's disappointment and Sutton's accident.

Maxwell’s Disappointment / Sutton’s Accident (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Klein, S. (2022, March). Maxwell’s Disappointment / Sutton’s Accident. Presented at IfM Buns Talk, Institute for Manufacturing, Department of Engineering , University of Cambridge

It has almost become somewhat of an urban legend or internet myth that James Clerk Maxwell created the first colour image and had demonstrated this at the Royal Institution in London in May 1861. He did present something, but what? In ‘The scientific... Read More about Maxwell’s Disappointment / Sutton’s Accident.

Now you see it, now you don’t: Illusive color (2021)
Journal Article
Klein, S. (2021). Now you see it, now you don’t: Illusive color. The Californian Printmaker: The Journal Of The Californian Society Of Printmakers, 2021,

My practise is centered around color. As a scientist I can only emphasize that color is a miracle of the mind. Without the human soul, it does not exist. I am choosing the word soul and not brain, because colour is not only generated by the interacti... Read More about Now you see it, now you don’t: Illusive color.

Maxwell’s disappointment / Sutton’s accident (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Klein, S., Elter, P., Trujillo Vazquez, A., & Fahy, N. (2021, October). Maxwell’s disappointment / Sutton’s accident. Presented at Colour Fever, Online

It has almost become somewhat of an urban legend or internet myth that James Clerk Maxwell created the first colour image and had demonstrated this at the Royal Institution in London in May 1861. He did present something, but what? In ‘The scientific... Read More about Maxwell’s disappointment / Sutton’s accident.

One and many: Wet-Collodion and Woodburytype (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Klein, S., & Elter, P. (2021). One and many: Wet-Collodion and Woodburytype. In Printing for Fabrication Online 2021 Final Program and Proceedings (37-40). https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2021.37.37

The invention of photography in the 19 th century changed our perception of reality for ever. Without the interpretation of an artist, an image could be recorded within minutes representing 'unfiltered' reality. Besides the scientific challenge how t... Read More about One and many: Wet-Collodion and Woodburytype.

Adventures in lithography (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Klein, S., & Fuller, H. (2021, June). Adventures in lithography. Paper presented at Annual Conference of the British Liquid Crystal Society, Aberdeen

Lithography is the most important industrial printing process for non-textile printing. Liquid crystal is ubiquitous in display technology. What happens when the two are combined? The adventure begins. Lithography was invented in 1796 by Alois Sene... Read More about Adventures in lithography.

Now you see it, and Now you don’t: Illusive colour (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Klein, S. (2020, November). Now you see it, and Now you don’t: Illusive colour. Presented at Twenty-eighth Color and Imaging Conference, Online

Colour, as beauty, lies in the eye of the beholder. In 1861, based on the RGB model of colour perception, James Clerk Maxwell produced the first colour photographs by exposing black and white film through red, green and blue filters, thus recording i... Read More about Now you see it, and Now you don’t: Illusive colour.

Retrieving the ancient colours: Artistic practice as a tool for heritage reconstruction (2020)
Journal Article
Vazquez, A. T., Klein, S., Calvet, X. A., & Parraman, C. (2020). Retrieving the ancient colours: Artistic practice as a tool for heritage reconstruction. Color and Imaging Conference, 2020(28), 282-287. https://doi.org/10.2352/issn.2169-2629.2020.28.45

The frieze of the Palace of the stuccoes, dated between the 5 th and 6 th century BC, was a polychrome Maya relief discovered in the 1907 in Yucatán, Mexico. It was documented in watercolours and hand tinted photographs by Adela Breton. After years o... Read More about Retrieving the ancient colours: Artistic practice as a tool for heritage reconstruction.

Woodburytype: a forgotten 19th century photomechanical process and its 21st century resurrection (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Klein, S. (2020, June). Woodburytype: a forgotten 19th century photomechanical process and its 21st century resurrection

One of the technological achievements of the 19th century was the mass reproduction of photographic images. Woodburytype was the first commercially successful photomechanical continuous tone printing method, of unsurpassed quality until today. Along... Read More about Woodburytype: a forgotten 19th century photomechanical process and its 21st century resurrection.

The polychromatic Woodburytype: Colour tracking in translucent, patterned gelatin/pigment films (2020)
Journal Article
Leech, D. J., Guy, W., & Klein, S. (2020). The polychromatic Woodburytype: Colour tracking in translucent, patterned gelatin/pigment films. Molecules, 25(11), Article 2468. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules25112468

The Woodburytype is a 19th century photomechanical technique capable of producing high-quality continuous-tone prints. It uses pigment dispersed in gelatin to produce a 2.5D print, in which the effect of varying tone is produced by a variation in the... Read More about The polychromatic Woodburytype: Colour tracking in translucent, patterned gelatin/pigment films.