Outputs (46)

The margins of art practice bordering on industrial development (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A conference paper challenging the popular view of artists, spread by the media over many years is of aesthetes with no commercial acumen and a distinct lack of time management. Examples of this go as far back as 1962 with Tony Hancock in the film th... Read More about The margins of art practice bordering on industrial development.

Measuring colour constancy and colour appearance: An experiment (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Paper given at Perception and Sensation Session 3.
Colour sensation does not depend strictly of the light signal conveying colour information, but also depends on the arrangement of the visual array of all signals coming from the scene. Colour cons... Read More about Measuring colour constancy and colour appearance: An experiment.

Reflectance, illumination and edges (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We studied color constancy using a pair of 3-D Color Mondrian displays made of two identical sets of painted wooden shapes. There are only 6-chromatic, and 5-achromatic paints applied to nearly 100 block facets. The three-dimensional nature of these... Read More about Reflectance, illumination and edges.

Innovation in vitreous surfaces in jewellery (2009)
Journal Article

Journal article outlining research fellowship funded by AHRC to date, including research methods, positioning of the theoretical aspects of enamel in contemporary jewellery practice and early indicators of the outcomes of practical research.

Reflectance, illumination, and edges in 3-D Mondrian colourconstancy experiments (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

AIC 2009 Proceedings published as CD-Rom
Proceedings of the 11th Congress of the International Colour Association (AIC 2009), edited by Dianne
Smith, Paul Green-Armytage, Margaret A. Pope and Nick Harkness. CD.
Sydney: Colour Society of Australia

Further developments in the digital fabrication of ceramic artworks (2009)
Book Chapter

Presented as a conference paper in NIP25: International Conference on Digital Printing Technologies and Digital Fabrication, September 2009, Louisville, Kentucky, USA. David Huson and colleagues at the Centre for Fine Print Research in the School of... Read More about Further developments in the digital fabrication of ceramic artworks.

The etching revival and the photogravure: A graphic aesthetic for photography (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper demonstrates the influence of the Etching Revival in Britain on fine art photography at the turn of the Century by focusing upon two photographers: Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882-1966) and James Craig Annan (1864-1946), who made photogravure (... Read More about The etching revival and the photogravure: A graphic aesthetic for photography.

Ossicillating spaces – The integration of 3D technologies within printmaking and sculptural practice (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

"The challenge for digital sculpture artists, however, is to work with new electronic medium without relying on it for content or presence. The virtual translated to the physical, sculpture files traveling around the world, infinite dissemination and... Read More about Ossicillating spaces – The integration of 3D technologies within printmaking and sculptural practice.

High tech / low tech: The utilization of printmaking techniques in the production of contemporary enamelled jewellery (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This poster presentation will outline the potential for printmaking techniques in the production of innovative and contemporary enamelled jewellery forms. It represents one strand of technical research within the overarching practice-led project Inno... Read More about High tech / low tech: The utilization of printmaking techniques in the production of contemporary enamelled jewellery.

Pictorialism through a plastic lens (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The aesthetic utilised by the early pictorialist photographers in their attempts to get artistic photography recognised as one of the Fine arts, rather than merely a method of mechanical reproduction, was one which relied on the use of soft focusing... Read More about Pictorialism through a plastic lens.

The printed reality exhibition (2009)
Exhibition / Performance

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.

Printing 3D dielectric elastomer actuators for soft robotics (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We present a new approach to the fabrication of soft dielectric elastomer actuators using a 3D printing process. Complete actuators including active membranes and support structures can be 3D printed in one go, resulting in a great improvement in fab... Read More about Printing 3D dielectric elastomer actuators for soft robotics.

Artist's Book Yearbook: 2010-2011 (2009)
Book

Essays: An interview with Dmitry Sayenko on his hand-printed books and the state of book arts in Russia; An interview with L. Vandergrift Davala, discussing how interactive digital technologies can be used in the production of book works; Banu Cennet... Read More about Artist's Book Yearbook: 2010-2011.

Methods of structuring databases and digital archives to provide narrative and contextual pathways through historical texts (2009)
Book Chapter

A conference paper presented at Networks of Design, 3-6 September 2008, University College Falmouth. The design of textual databases to act as archives or information repositories is dependant on a number of contributory factors which this paper aims... Read More about Methods of structuring databases and digital archives to provide narrative and contextual pathways through historical texts.

Is art making sustainable? (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Using their recent research study on Sustainability in Print Media, John Risseeuw and Stephen Hoskins provided a framework for understanding the basic science of sustainability, relating it to art materials and practice. Risseeuw and Hoskins began wi... Read More about Is art making sustainable?.

Through the Glass Darkly – Appropriation, Remaking and Representation through Print (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper will examine the incidence of appropriation and re-representation that emerged in fine art image and object making during the early 20th century. It specifically aims to trace the role of emerging forms of technology in facilitating new wa... Read More about Through the Glass Darkly – Appropriation, Remaking and Representation through Print.

Inner voice (2009)
Exhibition / Performance

Exhibition and presentation, group show: Contemporary Applied Arts, London, Curated by Dorothy Hogg MBE, 26.06.09 – 22.08.09. Invited by Dorothy Hogg to exhibit collection of eight new pieces and took part in gallery talk about work to invited audien... Read More about Inner voice.

The use of a plastic lens to replicate the aesthetic of the remembered image (2009)
Book Chapter

This paper is concerned with the concepts of memory, dreamscape and the unconscious, including those put forward by Carl Jung and James Sully and seeks to ascertain whether it is possible to create a pictorial representation of those through the medi... Read More about The use of a plastic lens to replicate the aesthetic of the remembered image.

Prints that fly (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Prints That Fly: My prints are as much about the craft of making, as they are a gentle delight in challenging the notions of what constitutes a print and where the perceived borders between the fine and applied arts, end and begin.

In the UK there... Read More about Prints that fly.

Does this look right? The science of colour appearance in art (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Invited lecture for Science Café given at Explore, At-Bristol, 9 June 2009.

Have you considered why the swatch colour you take to the paint shop appears very different to the final painted wall? Differences between how a colour is measured and how... Read More about Does this look right? The science of colour appearance in art.