Outputs (27)

Human automation & the post-digital print (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Laidler, P. (2016, February). Human automation & the post-digital print. Paper presented at 104th Annual Conference of the College Art Association (CAA), Washington DC, USA

Today we are surrounded by digital systems; machines and devices that offer countless possibilities for producing graphic artefacts that are unique to this period. Similarly the distinction between whether or not something is digital or physical appe... Read More about Human automation & the post-digital print.

Revisiting Richard Hamilton’s typo-topography of Marcel Duchamp’s Large Glass (2016)
Journal Article
Laidler, P. (2016). Revisiting Richard Hamilton’s typo-topography of Marcel Duchamp’s Large Glass. Print Quarterly, 33(1), 18-26

The production of fine art prints has a longstanding relationship with the collaborative print studio, where artists work together with master printers to realize and produce printed artworks. The collaboration between artist and print studio has pre... Read More about Revisiting Richard Hamilton’s typo-topography of Marcel Duchamp’s Large Glass.

Just press 'P' (2016)
Exhibition / Performance
Laidler, P. Just press 'P'. 1 January 2016 - 1 June 2018

Just Press P is an international, traveling group exposition that explores the introduction of 21st century technologies within the predominantly mechanically defined discipline of printmaking. The exhibition will highlight artistic planning, collabo... Read More about Just press 'P'.

Fairing well: The university publisher and its emerging artists (2014)
Journal Article
Laidler, P., & Super, A. (2014). Fairing well: The university publisher and its emerging artists

The university as a producer and publisher of prints is not a new concept when we consider established US-based institutes such as Graphicstudio in Tampa, Florida, (part of the University of Southern Florida) and the Tamarind Institute, which is part... Read More about Fairing well: The university publisher and its emerging artists.

Fairing well redux: Pu(bli)shing for profit (2014)
Journal Article
Laidler, P., & Super, A. (2014). Fairing well redux: Pu(bli)shing for profit

Continuing on the last installment’s theme of folk emerging from the Multiplied Art Fair at Christie’s we’ll turn our sights away from the students and not-for-profits, and towards the ‘may-or-may-not-have-gone-to-school-onces’ and ‘yeah-we’d-really-... Read More about Fairing well redux: Pu(bli)shing for profit.

Deconstructing digital printing technologies: Towards reinstating artistic ingenuity in the production of digital colour prints (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Olen, M., Parraman, C., & Laidler, P. (2014, October). Deconstructing digital printing technologies: Towards reinstating artistic ingenuity in the production of digital colour prints. Paper presented at Fifth International Conference on the Image, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

This research proposes an alternative perspective to conventional printing workflows. Such workflows are restrictive when standard interfaces conceal self-contained systems, limited by manufacturers’ parameters. This has been observed to inhibit the... Read More about Deconstructing digital printing technologies: Towards reinstating artistic ingenuity in the production of digital colour prints.

When artists become inkjet innovators (2014)
Journal Article
Laidler, P. (2014). When artists become inkjet innovators

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.

(Non) Graphic images of violence (2014)
Journal Article
Laidler, P., Mandrile, C., & Super, A. (2014). (Non) Graphic images of violence

This article is a studio conversation between researchers Dr Paul Laidler and Dr Cecilia Mandrile and artist Andrew Super.

Invited lecture by Paul Laidler (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Laidler, P. (2013, October). Invited lecture by Paul Laidler. Presented at Edinburgh Printmakers Lecture Series, Edinburgh Printmakers

Paul Laidler will talk about the development of a digital print publishing practice entitled CFPR Editions (www.cfpreditions.co.uk) and the recent exhibition that he curated entitled "just press print". This title was chosen to highlight that althoug... Read More about Invited lecture by Paul Laidler.

The human printer featuring the Print is Dead series: A model for the collaborative studio in the twenty-first century and the changing role of the master printer (2013)
Book Chapter
Laidler, P. (2013). The human printer featuring the Print is Dead series: A model for the collaborative studio in the twenty-first century and the changing role of the master printer. In L. Morgan (Ed.), Intersections and Counterpoints: Proceedings of Impact 7, an International Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking Conference (303-309). Australia: Monash University Publishing

This paper has been developed from a practice-based study for my PhD thesis 2011, entitled: Collaborative digital and wide format printing: methods and considerations for the artist and master printer. The paper discusses the panel's themes of printm... Read More about The human printer featuring the Print is Dead series: A model for the collaborative studio in the twenty-first century and the changing role of the master printer.