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

Laidler, Paul

Abstract

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 printmaking, collaboration, process and the digital age as a series of concepts towareds the initiation and production of the digitally mediated 'print' series Print is Dead. Here the preoccupation with production and process is emphasised over the end product as a means to address the collaborative print process and the conceptual considerations for the work, engaging with printmaking themes. While the resulting works are not prints in the truest sense, printmaking is embedded as a means to consider the broadening definition of 'print' in the digital age. In this instance, printmaking is consdered as an expanded term through the production of paintings and drawings, while the digitally mediated 'print' is realised through the print-on-demand model - a facility synomous with digital technology. Collectivly, the themes and produciton processes highlight the often de-emphasised collaborative undertaking for printers for artists, and the subsequent acknowledgement of this art category, while the resulting artworks challenge assumptions of authorship and origionality in the production of artworks for artists.

Paper presented at IMAPCT 7 International Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking Conference, Monash University, Australia.

Citation

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

• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2013
• Deposit Date: Feb 20, 2013
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 15, 2016
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 303-309
• Book Title: Intersections and Counterpoints: Proceedings of Impact 7, an International Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking Conference
• ISBN: 9781921867569
• Keywords: digital print, ownership, artists
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/936198
• Publisher URL: http://impact7.org.au/about.html
• Related Public URLs: http://www.uwe.ac.uk/sca/research/cfpr/dissemination/conferences/impact.html