All Outputs (76)

New York winter sketches - Diptych (2014)
Digital Artefact

Research Artefact created to explore mosaic or multi level imaging on two screens

Further developments in the 3D printing of self-glazing single fire ceramic materials (2014)
Journal Article

David Huson and Katie Vaughan at the Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of the West of England are continuing their research into the 3D printing of ceramic bodies by investigating the possibilities of using techniques developed by the... Read More about Further developments in the 3D printing of self-glazing single fire ceramic materials.

Issues of tacit knowledge within 3D printing for artists, designers and makers (2014)
Journal Article

The creative industries are directly interfacing with 3D printing technology and how it is changing the practices of many artists and designers across the globe. However for the creative community it is not possible to take on a new manufacturing tec... Read More about Issues of tacit knowledge within 3D printing for artists, designers and makers.

Digital creation of hand engraved copper plates to secure a historic process (2014)
Journal Article

Underglaze tissue ceramic transfer printing was first developed circa 1750 and involved the use of engraved or etched copper plates, from which a wet strength tissue paper was printed with an oxide (commonly cobalt for
blue colour) the famous ‘Will... Read More about Digital creation of hand engraved copper plates to secure a historic process.

The art and science of colour perception and reproduction (2014)
Book Chapter

Chapter 6 in Art, Science and Cultural Understanding covers a brief exploration of the differences in reproduction. A history of the art and science of colour. Forming pictures in the brain: colour appearance, perception, and neuroscience. Reproducti... Read More about The art and science of colour perception and reproduction.

Gameworlds: Virtual Media and Children's Everyday Play (2014)
Book

This book is about play with, in, and around, digital media in everyday life. Building on detailed case studies it explores the nature of play in the virtual worlds of video games and how this play relates to, and crosses over into, everyday play in... Read More about Gameworlds: Virtual Media and Children's Everyday Play.

Presentation on Kings Canyon (2014)
Digital Artefact

This Presentation describes the inception of the project to explore and investigate Artefacts that are then uploaded online for researchers to investigate non tree-logic functionality.

In this instance the beginning propositions concerned 3D perce... Read More about Presentation on Kings Canyon.

When artists become inkjet innovators (2014)
Journal Article

Dr Paul Laidler, research fellow at the Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of the West of England, explains how the work undertaken by the centre and its artists is pushing the boundaries of wide-format inkjet.

PAGE.PRINT.POST: 50 years of Artists Books (2014)
Exhibition / Performance

PAGE.PRINT.POST: 50 years of Artists Books curated by Debbie Hill and Geoff Wallis, offers a rare insight and overview of the development, range and ambition of the Artists Book over half a century. Featuring books, postal art and other 'alternative... Read More about PAGE.PRINT.POST: 50 years of Artists Books.

Click, swipe, download, share: Digital artists’ publishing (2014)
Journal Article

In this article, the British artist Tom Sowden looks at some of the ways in which other artists are publishing their books digitally. From hypertext works to ebooks to blogging; artists are beginning to utilize purely digital publishing tools as a me... Read More about Click, swipe, download, share: Digital artists’ publishing.

New approaches in glass investment casting: Creative practitioners researching and innovating in the field of digital fabrication (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC. This paper describes a research project aimed at delivering innovation in a combined sphere of digital fabrication and glass investment casting. The project has established an entirely new method for creating glass... Read More about New approaches in glass investment casting: Creative practitioners researching and innovating in the field of digital fabrication.

Smart materials and novel actuators: Creative applications in art and design (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Outcomes are presented from an interdisciplinary project investigating creative applications for smart materials within art and design practice. Smart materials exhibit changes in their physical properties in response to external stimuli. Materials d... Read More about Smart materials and novel actuators: Creative applications in art and design.

Click, swipe, download, share (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Tom Sowden was keynote speaker at the Beyond the Book conference, organised by Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Exeter University.

During this talk Sowden looked at how and why artists are using digital publishing tools to produce books. For the purposes... Read More about Click, swipe, download, share.

1,000 Dresses: The fashion design resource (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The lecture was a book launch and a key note lecture and promoted as part of Bath in Fashion 2014, hosted in the Theatre Royal, Bath to a sell out audience.

History in the Making: Experiment Invalidovna, Prague 1961 (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this paper I discussed my research on social housing project Experiment Invalidovna (Prague, 1961) and the role of state-commissioned glass, ceramic and furniture designers

An interview with contributors to Index (2014)
Other

Artists were originally invited to submit their images or text online, with the simple brief that the work must have been used to communicate, or be communicative in its own right. The resulting publication is a mix largely of photographs, but also w... Read More about An interview with contributors to Index.

White space radio: Towards an active database-centred topology (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The following paper presents and discusses the state of the art in White Space radio topologies. A possible system architecture combining database stations and active sensing is also presented. Some of the main challenges associated with such archite... Read More about White space radio: Towards an active database-centred topology.

Shuffle and cut: Editing and re-presenting material in artists’ books (2014)
Book Chapter

The book is an experimental exchange of out-of-context, repurposed text and image.

Durer’s Rhinoceros: Artists’ approaches to reproducing texture in art (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Since the introduction of computers, there has been a desire to improve the appearance of computer generated objects in virtual spaces and to be able to display the objects within complex scenes exactly as they appear in reality. This is a straightfo... Read More about Durer’s Rhinoceros: Artists’ approaches to reproducing texture in art.

Underglaze tissue printing for ceramic artists, a collaborative project to re-appraise 19th century printing skills (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Under-glaze tissue ceramic transfer printing first developed circa 1850 and involved engraved or etched copper plates, from which tissue was printed with cobalt blue oxides. Under-glaze tissue has a very distinctive, subtle quality – it is an integra... Read More about Underglaze tissue printing for ceramic artists, a collaborative project to re-appraise 19th century printing skills.