Printmaking and time based media

Ho, Wuon-Gean

Abstract

PRINTMAKING HAS INCREASINGLY LENT ITSELF to being represented in time-based media. While there is a rich history of documentary films that show the artist or printer at work, the print as multiple, often variable, and as a process is increasingly becoming a subject of time-based artworks themselves. As MOV, MPG, or GIF files, these can be shared and exhibited on the internet, bringing the time-based print, consistent with its historical role as a multiple, onto smart phones, tablets and computers. In this session, three artists using time-based printmaking will talk about their approach and methods.
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"REPRESENTING PRINTS IN TIME." My short animation, Shadow Boy and Shadow Girl, is created from two sets of reduction linocut prints, with over 1500 in-between frames made in photoshop. Reduction linocut involves carving whiteness into a dark ground, and I wanted to explore the limitations of using a horizontal line as my only mark. I also wanted to see what would happen when I took the reduction linocut to its logical conclusion of complete obliteration. In this talk I will cover how certain specifics of the printmaking process, such as variable inking, the multiplied image and traces of touch brings a unique quality to animations and time-based media. I will also look at approaches by other artists that reveal the matrix and its offspring to be dynamic and evolving in time.

• Presentation Conference Type: Presentation / Talk
• Conference Name: Remote Contact
• Start Date: Mar 12, 2021
• End Date: Mar 13, 2021
• Deposit Date: Mar 29, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 31, 2021
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/7239854
• Publisher URL: http://volweb.utk.edu/~remotecontact/time-based.html
• Additional Information: https://vimeo.com/524915985