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Exploring the intersection of A.I. and human creativity: Empowering agency in an age of uncertainty (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Laidler, P. (2024, July). Exploring the intersection of A.I. and human creativity: Empowering agency in an age of uncertainty. Paper presented at ICON12, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

The paper 'Exploring the Intersection of A.I. and Human Creativity: Empowering Agency in an Age of Uncertainty' will be presented at the Prisms Education Symposium, a component of ICON12 at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) July 2024. This sympo... Read More about Exploring the intersection of A.I. and human creativity: Empowering agency in an age of uncertainty.

Ragged Cinema (2024)
Digital Artefact
Laidler, P. Ragged Cinema. [Digital Image]

The image has been created for the publication 'Left Cultures' as a response to the article titled 'Ragged Cinema' by Núria Araüna Baró and David Archibald. The image-making process combines artificial intelligence and printed matter to capture the t... Read More about Ragged Cinema.

Blank. Raw. Illegible... Artists' books as statement (1960-2022) (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Laidler, P. Blank. Raw. Illegible... Artists' books as statement (1960-2022). [Artist Book]. Exhibited at Germany. 14 May 2023 - 3 September 2023. (Unpublished)

In reference to one of the first ground-breaking exhibitions in the 1970s about the then still new medium of artists’ books—"Book as Artwork 1960/72”, held in 1972 at Nigel Greenwood Inc. in London and curated by Italian critic Germano Celant with ga... Read More about Blank. Raw. Illegible... Artists' books as statement (1960-2022).

„Borderline printmakers” (2021)
Exhibition / Performance
Laidler, P. „Borderline printmakers”. [https://www.impact11.hk/en/]. Exhibited at Impact 11 International Printmaking Conference, Hong Kong. 20 April 2021 - 25 April 2021. (Unpublished)

Contemporary printmakers often reach boarders of their own discipline, as they were testing its flexibility, limitations and endurance. They create unexpected combinations, create fusions of artistic means relevant to printmaking and other mediums. T... Read More about „Borderline printmakers”.

The worlds a stage (2020)
Journal Article
Laidler, P. (2020). The worlds a stage. Beneficial Shock,

The theme of the article comments upon ‘reality' as a fabricated space for deceit and when one’s attention is drawn toward the physical break down of ‘the façade’. This specific attempt at concealment will reference The Truman Show and the Fallen Spo... Read More about The worlds a stage.

Spatial traces and skeletal projections (2020)
Journal Article
Laidler, P. (2020). Spatial traces and skeletal projections. Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice, 5(1), 117-122. https://doi.org/10.1386/drtp_00025_7

The article discusses how sketching is utilised as a durational state within my practice and as a means to cultivate the creative potential that is afforded by the rough draft. The proceeding development of the sketch is also considered in relation t... Read More about Spatial traces and skeletal projections.

Printed conversations and collaborative undertakings (2018)
Journal Article
Laidler, P. (2018). Printed conversations and collaborative undertakings. Grabado Y Edición Print and Art Edition Magazine, 30-43

The article discusses the curatorial premise and collaborative studio practices behind the Just Press Print exhibition curated by Dr Paul Laidler. The Just Press Print exhibition title draws attention to automated associations with digital technolo... Read More about Printed conversations and collaborative undertakings.

Mapping post-digital practice in the graphic arts (2018)
Journal Article
Laidler, P. (2018). Mapping post-digital practice in the graphic arts. Printmaking Today, 27(106), 15-15

It has been suggested by a range of established commentators that digital technology may have potentially created a ‘mental change’ within the creative process of making images and objects. Although this statement is somewhat broad and our ability to... Read More about Mapping post-digital practice in the graphic arts.

Satisfaction Guaranteed™ (2018)
Journal Article
Laidler, P. (2018). Satisfaction Guaranteed™. Beneficial Shock, 3, 78-83

A written and illustrated article. Science fiction films have presented us with numerous visions of machines programmed to satisfy our every need. In some instances these needs have been considered in relation to the intimate and physical relations... Read More about Satisfaction Guaranteed™.

Looking through the eyes of machines as humans (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Laidler, P. (2017, December). Looking through the eyes of machines as humans. Paper presented at Post-digital printmaking. Redefinition of print., Wrocław, Poland

It has been suggested by a range of established commentators that digital technology may have potentially created a ‘mental change’ within the creative process of making graphic images and objects. Although this statement is somewhat broad and our ab... Read More about Looking through the eyes of machines as humans.

Collaborative print studio (2017)
Journal Article
Laidler, P. (2017). Collaborative print studio. Grabado Y Edición Print and Art Edition Magazine, 25-41

The collaborative print studio has had profound impact upon the production and realisation of some of the most innovative prints within the discipline of fine art printmaking. Historically an artist with little understanding of the print process or a... Read More about Collaborative print studio.

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.

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'.

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.

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.

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.

Pay Close Attention. CFPR, Bristol (2013)
Journal Article
Laidler, P. (2013). Pay Close Attention. CFPR, Bristol. Grabado Y Edición Print and Art Edition Magazine, 42-50

Research at the Centre for Fine Print Research (CFPR) is based on the production of the physical artefact, primarily predicated in print. All aspects of technology that relate to the core philosophy of making are central to this ethos. In recent y... Read More about Pay Close Attention. CFPR, Bristol.

Talking prints lecture (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Laidler, P. (2012, November). Talking prints lecture. Presented at Digital Aesthetic³ 2012, Harris Museum and Gallery, Preston

Dr Paul Laidler was invited to give a lecture at the Harris Museum and Gallery as part of the Digital Aesthetic³ 2012 international exhibition and conference. Artlab Contemporary Print programme - Talking Prints is a series of talks by artists explo... Read More about Talking prints lecture.

Multiplied: contemporary art in editions fair (2012)
Exhibition / Performance
Laidler, P. Multiplied: contemporary art in editions fair. 12 October 2012 - 15 October 2012. (Unpublished)

Dr Paul Laidler has curated an exhibition of CFPR Editions based on his research into what constitutes a print today for visual artists and how has digital technology diluted the medium so much that print is becoming a redundant term in creative prac... Read More about Multiplied: contemporary art in editions fair.

Just press print (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Laidler, P. (2012, September). Just press print. Presented at 2nd International Printmaking Symposium, Bentlage Rheine, Germany

Paul Laidler will talk about a recent exhibition that he curated entitled "just press print" this title was chosen to highlight that although digital printing has a 'print' button, the significant elements of the creation of the digital print are oft... Read More about Just press print.

Digital publications and technical innovations: The collaborative print studio in the digital age (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Laidler, P. (2012, September). Digital publications and technical innovations: The collaborative print studio in the digital age. Paper presented at Industry and genius in the printing trade - The Printing Historical Society, Birmingham School of Art, Birmingham, UK

The collaborative print studio has had profound impact upon the production and realisation of some of the most innovative prints within the discipline of fine art printmaking. Historically an artist with little understanding of the print process or a... Read More about Digital publications and technical innovations: The collaborative print studio in the digital age.

Just press print (2012)
Exhibition / Performance
Laidler, P. Just press print. 20 June 2012 - 10 August 2012. (Unpublished)

The exhibition Just Press Print explores the specialist field of digital print editioning and publishing for artists and designers. The emphasis on digital technology within a practice that is predicated in printmaking provides a dialogue for the exh... Read More about Just press print.

Codex Event 8 (2012)
Exhibition / Performance
Laidler, P., Bodman, S. L., Sowden, T., & Mosely, T. Codex Event 8. 13 June 2012 - 31 August 2012. (Unpublished)

An Australian and British collaborative research project into pulp-printing, installation and artists’ books between Sarah Bodman, Paul Laidler, Tim Mosely, Monica Oppen and Tom Sowden. Codex Event 8 tackled the ‘urban jungle’, its physical mass... Read More about Codex Event 8.

Printmaking – new and old technologies – a conversation (2012)
Journal Article
Laidler, P., & Coldwell, P. (2012). Printmaking – new and old technologies – a conversation

This paper, through a conversation between Professor Coldwell and Dr Laidler, considers the ongoing relationship between old and new technologies within fine art printmaking. In particular it explores how ideas move between virtual and real, and the... Read More about Printmaking – new and old technologies – a conversation.

Codex Event 8: An Australian and British Collaboration of pulp-printing, installation and artists’ books with Sarah Bodman, Paul Laidler, Tim Mosely, Monica Oppen and Tom Sowden 2011-2012 (2012)
Journal Article
Bodman, S. L., Sowden, T., Laidler, P., & Moseley, T. (2012). Codex Event 8: An Australian and British Collaboration of pulp-printing, installation and artists’ books with Sarah Bodman, Paul Laidler, Tim Mosely, Monica Oppen and Tom Sowden 2011-2012

A co-authored article by all the artists for Imprint journal, Australia, September 2012. Sarah Bodman and Paul Laidler from the Centre for Fine Print Research (CFPR) at UWE, Bristol, UK joined Tim Mosely in Brisbane at Queensland College of Art (Q... Read More about Codex Event 8: An Australian and British Collaboration of pulp-printing, installation and artists’ books with Sarah Bodman, Paul Laidler, Tim Mosely, Monica Oppen and Tom Sowden 2011-2012.

Colour print workflow and methods for multi-layering of colour and decorative inks using UV inkjet for fine-art printing (2012)
Book Chapter
Parraman, C., & Laidler, P. (2012). Colour print workflow and methods for multi-layering of colour and decorative inks using UV inkjet for fine-art printing. In R. Eschbach, G. G. Marcu, & A. Rizzi (Eds.), Color Imaging XVII: Displaying, Processing, Hardcopy (8292-38). USA: SPIE

The current inkjet market is mainly composed of two dimensional printers, paper and vinyl printing, 3D CAD, solvent wide-format and UV printing onto paper, plastics and board. Inkjet is ubiquitously used as a proofing or prototyping tool in preparati... Read More about Colour print workflow and methods for multi-layering of colour and decorative inks using UV inkjet for fine-art printing.

Collaborative digital and wide format printing: Methods and considerations for the artist and master printer (2011)
Thesis
Laidler, P. Collaborative digital and wide format printing: Methods and considerations for the artist and master printer. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/964903

This thesis investigates the collaborative production of fine art digital prints for artists,a process which is used by many contemporary practitioners including Richard Hamilton and Damien Hirst. Digital print as a fine art process has emerged over... Read More about Collaborative digital and wide format printing: Methods and considerations for the artist and master printer.

Human automation (2011)
Journal Article
Laidler, P. (2011). Human automation. Printmaking Today, 20(4), 28

Defining Print Paul Laidler's PhD focuses on the production process rather than the artefact itself. In his exploration of a means that is not quite print, he questions the boundaries of printmaking in the digital age in this article for Printmaking... Read More about Human automation.

Sympathetic transcriptions (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Laidler, P. (2010, June). Sympathetic transcriptions. Paper presented at CREATE conference, Gjovik University College, Gjovik, Norway

The technical prowess of the traditional master printer within collaborative printmaking has enabled the artist to produce technically proficient artwork without having to spend years acquiring the necessary skills to realise their ideas in print. Th... Read More about Sympathetic transcriptions.

The collaborative print studio within a Higher Educational Institution and its relationship to the art marketplace (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Hoskins, S., & Laidler, P. (2010, March). The collaborative print studio within a Higher Educational Institution and its relationship to the art marketplace. Paper presented at Higher Education and the Creative Economy Conference, University of Southampton

The British Pop-artist Richard Hamilton has described the benefits of working collaboratively with printers: “Gaining the wide range of technical skills required in many different print media would be absurdly time-consuming, if not impossible. My ha... Read More about The collaborative print studio within a Higher Educational Institution and its relationship to the art marketplace.

The printed reality exhibition (2009)
Exhibition / Performance
Laidler, P. The printed reality exhibition. 16 September 2009 - 19 September 2009. (Unpublished)

Curated by Paul Laidler The Printed Reality Exhibition was a curated show of photographic works by seven artists presented as a gallery instillation. The exhibition was conceived as a way to bring together the physical exhibition space and the digita... Read More about The printed reality exhibition.

Is it a game, or is it real? (2009)
Physical Artefact
Laidler, P. Is it a game, or is it real?

This artists book work is a reinterpretation of David Bischoff's War Games. In this instance a 'remake' of the Penguin book that uses the film adaptation of Bischoff's novel as the cover image. Here the novels text is proceeded by its cinematic cover... Read More about Is it a game, or is it real?.

Stretch out with your feelings (2009)
Physical Artefact
Laidler, P. Stretch out with your feelings

Image laser cut into a black heavy weight cotton based paper, included in the 7th RWA Open Print Exhibition curated by Peter Ford. The Royal West of England Academy has two open exhibitions a year. The first is an exhibition rotating the disciplin... Read More about Stretch out with your feelings.

Facilitating the fine art digital print (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Laidler, P. (2008, October). Facilitating the fine art digital print. Paper presented at 'New Ways to use Print Technology ...On Paper', University of the West of England, Bristol

The Industrial Revolution of the late 18th – 19th C coincided with art’s Romantic period and its depiction of the ‘great person’ theory. Here, the Romanticists’ solitary creator and autographic distinction were the highest forms of originality in art... Read More about Facilitating the fine art digital print.

Pixel perfect - working with CMYK & RGB - A comparison of printed samples (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Parraman, C., Laidler, P., & Wang, Y. (2008, October). Pixel perfect - working with CMYK & RGB - A comparison of printed samples. Presented at 'New Ways to use Print Technology ...On Paper', University of the West of England, Bristol

This workshop compared different pre-printed samples on a range of fine art materials, which range from Japanese papers to fine art canvas. These samples demonstrate a very broad range of surface qualities and differences in the gamut of the printed... Read More about Pixel perfect - working with CMYK & RGB - A comparison of printed samples.

The photographic in digital printmaking (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Laidler, P. (2008, July). The photographic in digital printmaking. Paper presented at The Association for Photography in Higher Education: Annual Conference Shifting Perspectives: Photography, Education and the Future, University of the West of England, Bristol

The paper describes the initial felt need to begin investigating the impact of digital technology within the field of fine art printmaking as a practice led PhD study. Then moving beyond the felt need the presentation pinpoints a series of seminal te... Read More about The photographic in digital printmaking.

The production of archivally stable fine art prints: The role of the master printer in the digital age (2006)
Book Chapter
Thirkell, P., & Laidler, P. (2006). The production of archivally stable fine art prints: The role of the master printer in the digital age. In R. Thompson, A. Manning, & J. Townsend (Eds.), Preservation and Conservation Issues Related to Digital Printing and Digital Photography. World Power Books

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.

Customising digital printing for fine art practice (2005)
Journal Article
Thirkell, P., Parraman, C., Hoskins, S., Laidler, P., & Wang, H. Q. (2005). Customising digital printing for fine art practice. Proceedings of SPIE, 5667, 465-472. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.587891

The presentation will demonstrate how through alternative methods of digital print production the Centre for Fine Print Research (CFPR) is developing methodologies for digital printing that attempt to move beyond standard reproductive print methods.... Read More about Customising digital printing for fine art practice.

A perpetual portfolio (2005)
Exhibition / Performance
Laidler, P., Hoskins, S., Bodman, S. L., & Johnson, L. (2005). A perpetual portfolio. 2 June 2005 - 26 June 2005. (Unpublished)

The Catalogue for the Perpetual Portfolio Exhibition was released at the Museo Nacional Del Grabado, Buenos Aires, Argentina in June 2005. The publication includes all twenty-three prints produce during the CFPR digital residency programme of which e... Read More about A perpetual portfolio.

Print is dead series
Digital Artefact
Laidler, P. (2015). Print is dead series

Included in the exhibition ‘Post-digital printmaking: Redefinition of the concept of matrix’curated by Prof. Aleksandra Janik at the Wrocław Academies Centre for Applied Arts and Innovation 02/11/2015 – 19/11/2015. The exhibition presents examples... Read More about Print is dead series.

Toast: A night on Weevil Lake
Physical Artefact
Bodman, S. L., Butler, A., Allsebrook, H., Baeumler, C., Butler, S., Campbell, N., …Stevens, E. F. (2011). Toast: A night on Weevil Lake

A collaborative artist's book and movie produced on World Book Night, Saturday 5th March 2011, in tribute to Douglas Coupland's novel The Gum Thief, an evening of nothing being cooked, Chinese food having to be ordered in and eaten off of paper plat... Read More about Toast: A night on Weevil Lake.

Recording landscape
Presentation / Conference
Laidler, P. Recording landscape. Presented at Doverodde Book Arts Festival 2010, 14-16 May 2010

A conference workshop on producing and stitching panoramic photographs of the landscape for digital print and books.

Shine on
Physical Artefact
Ambeck, M. D., Atkinson, C., Bodman, S. L., Butler, A., Butler, S., Campbell, N., …Wyatt, C. (2015). Shine on

On 23/04/15, we, the WBN United Artists made our annual World Book Night tribute. This year we chose Stephen King's magnificent horror novel The Shining. We matched the models to text excerpts from the New English Library paperback edition of The Shi... Read More about Shine on.