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Biography |
Lucas Ihlein is a member of the Big Fag Press collective, an offset-lithographic press based in Sydney. As an artist, he works collaboratively and individually, using blogging, social interactions, printmaking, public speaking, and performative methods of artmaking. In 2009 he completed a PhD on "blogging as art" at Deakin University. |
Paper |
Post-Digital Printing in the Field |
Abstract |
In this paper, I elaborate on the idea of 'Printing in the Field', first proposed by curator Glenn Barkley. Barkley's concept offers a way to consider the practice of printmaking beyond the polarities of studio-based fine art and commercial printing. When 'printing in the field', an artist might introduce into public discourse a material object (a print) which participates in, and alters the cultural field itself. A timely feedback loop is then created which affects the production of subsequent prints; and this mutually transformative cycle continues. I take my project 'Environmental Audit' (2010) as a case study, to discuss how such a process can work in practice. For 'Environmental Audit', I combined the production of a series of prints with a project blog, and an array of ongoing conversations. Even though my project used a 'pre-digital' means of printmaking (offset lithography), it can be considered as an example of what Russell Davies has called the 'post-digital': a method of engagement which moves 'back and forth between online and offline forms with a fluency which acknowledges the particular strengths of each'. |
Date |
Thursday 29 September |
Session |
11:00am - 12.30pm |
Speaking |
11:50am |
| lucas@bigfagpress.org | |
Website |
http://bigfagpress.org |
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