All Outputs (10)

Translation in transition: The cabinet of curiosities (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Parraman, C., Clarke, L., White, M., & Hill, T. (in press). Translation in transition: The cabinet of curiosities.

Working collaboratively: digital and analogue, artist and machine, artist and artist is a constant activity of negotiation and translation – between code, language, process, matrix material and metaphor. The CFPR’s Artist in Residence programme aims... Read More about Translation in transition: The cabinet of curiosities.

Don't give them fire! (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Klein, S. Don't give them fire!. [Print]. 4 March 2024 - 15 March 2024. (Unpublished)

The title ‘Don’t give them fire’ refers to the myth of Prometheus. Prometheus's most famous act was his theft of fire from the gods. According to the myth, Prometheus took fire from the workshop of Hephaestus (the god of fire and craftsmanship) and g... Read More about Don't give them fire!.

Impact 12 Proceedings // Panel Sessions and Reflective papers Vol 2 (2024) (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Parraman, C. (2024). Impact 12 Proceedings // Panel Sessions and Reflective papers Vol 2 (2024).

The second volume comprising a range of articles from the panel sessions and reflective presentations at IMPACT. The subjects reflect on many of the themes of the conference: the post-pandemic voice, community and collaboration, histories of print an... Read More about Impact 12 Proceedings // Panel Sessions and Reflective papers Vol 2 (2024).

Impact 12 Proceedings // Panel Sessions and Reflective papers (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Parraman, C. (2023). Impact 12 Proceedings // Panel Sessions and Reflective papers.

These first 15 articles are part of the Impact Proceedings from the panel sessions and reflective presentations.

Printing with tonalli: Reproducing featherwork from precolonial Mexico using structural colorants (2023)
Journal Article
Trujillo-Vazquez, A., Abedini, F., Pranovich, A., Parraman, C., & Klein, S. (2023). Printing with tonalli: Reproducing featherwork from precolonial Mexico using structural colorants. Colorants, 2(4), 632-653. https://doi.org/10.3390/colorants2040033

Two of the most significant cases of extant 16th-century featherwork from Mexico are the so-called Moctezuma’s headdress and the Ahuizotl shield. While the feathers used in these artworks exhibit lightfast colors, their assembly comprises mainly orga... Read More about Printing with tonalli: Reproducing featherwork from precolonial Mexico using structural colorants.

Printing structural colour (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Parraman, C. (2023, July). Printing structural colour. Presented at Colour Conference 2023, University of Leeds

RGB printing or structural colour printing is an intriguing method that transforms everything we know about CMYK subtractive printing by combining additive print methods and RGB pigments that can radically change the appearance of the printed image.... Read More about Printing structural colour.

RGB colour printing and halftoning for the reproduction of structural colour images (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Parraman, C., Klein, S., Vazquez, A., & Fuller, H. (2023, June). RGB colour printing and halftoning for the reproduction of structural colour images. Presented at Color Impact 2023, Rochester Institute of Technology

Commercial CMYK halftone printing involves additive and subtractive colour mixing that requires the optical mixing of primary colour hues using different-sized dots to obtain variations in reflected colour. Structural colour, as seen in nature, such... Read More about RGB colour printing and halftoning for the reproduction of structural colour images.

Deep Impact (2023)
Journal Article
Parraman, C. (2023). Deep Impact. Imprint Magazine, 58(1), 2

At the 12th IMPACT multidisciplinary printmaking conference in Bristol, The Printmakers’ Voice, artists, practitioners, academics, technologists and curators came together to listen to each other’s voices, share and discuss themes, view new works of... Read More about Deep Impact.

IMPACT 12 Proceedings 2023 (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Parraman, C. (2023). IMPACT 12 Proceedings 2023.

Editor of The first collection of academic papers from the IMPACT Conference The Printmakers' Voice, 21-25 September 2022, hosted by The Centre for Print Research, University of the West of England.  

Printing Technologies and Applications: A Multidisciplinary Roadmap
Book
Parraman, C., & Klein, S. Printing Technologies and Applications: A Multidisciplinary Roadmap. London: Institute Of Physics Publishing

Print plays a vital role in our lives. It provides the means to communicate messages cheaply and with impact. It is an important vehicle for advertising, education, entertainment, information and plays a substantial role in modern manufacturing. Even... Read More about Printing Technologies and Applications: A Multidisciplinary Roadmap.