Impact7

Conference Theme & Topics

IMPACT 7: Intersections & Counterpoints will focus on the multiple identity of the print, exploring the cross-disciplinary nature of printmedia internationally and in the context of the Asia-Pacific region. Printmedia will be explored as a heterogeneous, diverse and all pervading aspect of contemporary culture. Often located at the intersections of disciplines and media, it is also a powerful political vehicle, generating discourse and debate by virtue of its wide dissemination and ability to offer counterpoints to the norm.

The conference addresses practitioners, writers, critics, artists, theorists, and others working in the broad fields of print-related research. It aims to provide a platform in which practitioners and researchers can engage in a mutually productive exchange. Media identified by the conference will include but not be limited to:

• Printmaking
• Photography
• Graphic Design
• Architecture
• Drawing
• The Artist’s Book
• Text
• Animation
• Film and Digital Media
• Jewellery and Metalsmith
• Glass, Ceramic and Textile

IMPACT 7 will reflect on the activities of an international community of artists, writers and designers. The conference will bring indigenous, migrant, and regional voices to the fore, with a focus on cultural diversity, creative collaboration, the artists’ book, and communication in digital networks.

Papers were invited on any aspect of the conference theme. Topics include but are not limited to:

• Printmedia and political agency, activism, appropriation and sub-culture
• Print and the influence of digital technologies and new media
• The history and theory of the print, printmedia and printmaking
• Trace, document, index
• Medium and materiality
• Craft, making, mastery and process
• Sustainability, reconstitution, and recycling
• Globalization, national identities and the post-colonial perspective
• Printmedia and Indigeneity
• The distribution of printmedia: economies and sites of practice
• Printmedia in the domestic and everyday
• The print as memorial, memory and trauma
• Print media as a means to engage archives and the archival
• Printmedia and the artist’s book
• The print and narrative
• Print, film and animation
• The print, text, semiotics and language
• Paper architecture: the unbuilt in printmedia