An illustration of how research can generate research: Examining the progression of ideas and concepts used throughout a series of related research projects
(2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Outputs (13)
Creating and managing digital archives relating to the history and technique of print (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
To manage the construction of a digital archive effectively, fundamental issues need to be addressed. These principally revolve around the consideration of how the underpinning architecture and design of the archive will work. For example – questions... Read More about Creating and managing digital archives relating to the history and technique of print.
From Bash Street to Duchamp, reproduction and originality using digitally created content (2006)
Book Chapter
The digital printing of imagery has caused speculation in regard to originality of image both in conception and in conservation. It has recreated the old arguments constantly cited over the authenticity of the artist original print, because the subj... Read More about From Bash Street to Duchamp, reproduction and originality using digitally created content.
Digitally print technologies and their relation to vitreous enamel on metal for the visual artist (2006)
Book
The Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of the West of England has recently installed a large-scale kiln for firing enamel on metal panels used in public art projects. This has necessitated research into methods of transferring digital p... Read More about Digitally print technologies and their relation to vitreous enamel on metal for the visual artist.
Digital fabrication techniques in art/craft and designer/maker ceramics (2006)
Book Chapter
While the development of Rapid Prototyping and Digital Fabrication technologies has transformed the production of models and prototypes in the industrial ceramics world, the use of these techniques in Art/Craft and Designer/Maker ceramics has been mi... Read More about Digital fabrication techniques in art/craft and designer/maker ceramics.
The diversity of digital print technologies used in the creation of high quality Fine Art (2006)
Journal Article
The Centre for Fine Print Research in Bristol UK undertakes research into print technologies from the traditional 19th Century to the latest digital capture and print. Outcomes of this research are often realised in collaborative projects with well-k... Read More about The diversity of digital print technologies used in the creation of high quality Fine Art.
Sitting Room: An Exhibition of Artists’ Books (2006)
Exhibition / Performance
Sitting Room was conceived between curators Tom Sowden and Lucy May Schofield. The show presented artists’ books in a re-created sitting room within gallery spaces, allowing the majority of books to be handled and read by the viewers.
Exhibition... Read More about Sitting Room: An Exhibition of Artists’ Books.
The use of database techniques for preserving high quality printing skills and processes (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
With the rapid advancement of digital technology, knowledge of many former specialist high quality printing processes used throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries have fallen by the wayside. As a result the details relating to their un... Read More about The use of database techniques for preserving high quality printing skills and processes.
Focus on Artists' Books 3 (2006)
Other
The collotype database (2006)
Data
The database was created as a result of demand from the international collotype community. There are only three commercial companies using the process in the world and academics, as part of the Association of European Historic Printing Museums, were... Read More about The collotype database.
What happens to prints during storage? To evaluate the whiteness of artists’ enhanced inkjet papers and colour changes in relation to fading of ink (2006)
Book Chapter
The tests emulate a range of storage conditions by generating layers of printed inkjet test charts to determine what happens to prints during storage and over time. For the home user of photo-printers onto glossy media, storage conditions for printed... Read More about What happens to prints during storage? To evaluate the whiteness of artists’ enhanced inkjet papers and colour changes in relation to fading of ink.
Collotype: Past, present and future (2006)
Other
Catalogue for the exhibition at St Bride Library, London for the exhibition Collotype: past, present and future. This publication was the result of AHRC funding.
The production of archivally stable fine art prints: The role of the master printer in the digital age (2006)
Book Chapter
From a conference paper given at the Third International Conference: Preservation and Conservation Issues Related to Digital Printing and Digital Photography, 25th April 2006, Institute of Physics, London. For many blue chip artists the master printe... Read More about The production of archivally stable fine art prints: The role of the master printer in the digital age.