FADE Academic papers, publications and artist talks

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Printmaking: A Contemporary Perspective – new book

admin — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:50:19 +0000

Professor Paul Coldwell’s new book ‘Printmaking: A Contemporary Perspective’ is now available.

Printmaking: A Contemporary Perspective is a solid overview of current work in this exciting area, taking into account the history and the different techniques available for artists working today. Using the work of contemporary artists, Printmaking tells the story of the progression of this art form and highlights the most important technological advances and influential artists.

Kilpper, Patrick Caulfield, Marko Blazo, Chuck Close, Masami Teraoka, Michael Craig-Martin, Kara Walker, Willie Cole, Banksy and many others.

from Amazon here

Key artists that have produced prints are involved to show their influence on contemporary artists. The book includes the work of contemporary artists from all over the world, profiling some of the most innovative examples of printmaking in the art world today. Artists featured include Grayson Perry, Thomas Kilpper, Patrick Caulfield, Marko Blazo, Chuck Close, Masami Teraoka, Michael Craig-Martin, Kara Walker, Willie Cole, Banksy and many others.

From Pixels and Grain: open talk with Silke Helmerdig

admin — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:57:45 +0000

Chaired by Jo Love
All welcome

Thursday 17th June at 6.30pm
The Card Room
Chelsea College of Art & Design

The aesthetics of photography have always evolved from technical achievements. From very static images in the early years due to long exposure times to photo journalism on account of smaller cameras and more sensitive emulsions, from black and white to colour and finally from silver halide to digital. The prospects of technical innovations are in the differences and not as often presumed in the similarities.

Silke Helmerdig, is Professor for Photography, Department of Communication Design, Braunschweig University of Art in Germany In 2006 Silke Helmerdig published a book Ein Pixel, Zwei Korn (One pixel , two grains) about the changes in the aesthetics of photography through the influence of digital imaging.
Her research focuses are on the influence of material on the meaning of the photographic image and on collective memory and photographic images in postwar Germany. Her research is practice based and theoretical. She has an extensive international record of exhibitions.

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CCW Research presents a talk by Anna Milsom: ‘Thick’ translation and and the multimodal artefact – 26th May

admin — Thu, 20 May 2010 14:57:06 +0000

CCW Research

Anna Milsom: ‘Thick’ translation and the multimodal artefact

Wed 26th May
2-4pm
Large Seminar Room
Camberwell College of Arts, Wilson Road, London SE5 8LU

A talk by Anna Milsom (Senior Lecturer in Applied Translation at London Metropolitan University)

In her PhD thesis Anna Milsom approached the use of multimodality in a way which opens up exciting possibilities for the presentation of layered material, not only proposing a challenging solution to the thesis itself, but also suggesting an alternative to a linear presentation of text. Her work will be of great interest to all those engaged in questions regarding ‘what a thesis might look like’ as well as for creative writers/artists.

Professor Paul Coldwell

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This talk describes the unexpected route towards multimodality which was taken over the course of my PhD research. The focus of the project was the analysis and translation of folktales by the Cuban ethnographer Lydia Cabrera (1900 – 1991). In all, Cabrera published twenty two books which provide a unique insight into Afro-Cuban religions and customs. Her tales actively embrace hybridity – as narratives they straddle a range of oppositions being both oral and written, singly and multiply authored, ethnographic fact and literary fiction. The complexity of translating such texts into English led to a desire to offer translations which might move beyond the traditional format of a written text in one language standing in the place of a written text in another. Research undertaken in the archive at the University of Miami was pivotal. The archive contains a vast collection of Cabrera’s notes, doodles, photographs and drafts. Slowly, Cabrera herself and the whispered presence of her Afro-Cuban informants became audible, and the idea of presenting multiple layers of text emerged. Drawing on a range of disciplines, an interactive DVD, underpinned by the notion of ‘thick translation’ (Appiah 2000), was developed. This final form of the project aimed to make all the participants involved in Cabrera’s tales visible; the writer, her informants, myself as translator, and the reader as active participant.

For further information, please contact: p.coldwell@chelsea.arts.ac.uk

Reference: Kwame Anthony Appiah (2000) ‘Thick Translation’ in L. Venuti (Ed.) The Translation Studies Reader. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 417-429.

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‘The Personalised Surface. New Approaches to Digital printmaking’

admin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:44:43 +0000

Book Review in Printmaking Today Winter 2009 Issue

Personalised Surface Book Cover

Papers presented at a Symposium at the V&A,3 Apr 2009. www.faderesearch.com/digitalsurface, 2009, 96 pp, Colour Illustrations throughout, Paperback, 240 x 190 mm + DVD, £10. ISBN 978 0 9558628 9 2

This informative book of papers presented at a symposium in April this year is full of delight. The papers offer a history of digital art in all its forms, the thought processes of its many accomplished practitioners, curators’ perspectives on its acquisition and experts’ views on its technical aspects. A DVD with additional research papers, case studies and interviews is also included.

Intaglio printmakers have long played with the surfaces of the plates they use, as well as enhancing the printed surface with multiple plate printing and chine colle. Digital printmakers get a similar buzz from the huge variety of approaches described here. I found Paul Coldwe11′s conversation with Michael Craig-Martin particularly interesting and thought-provoking. There is an immense amount of detail and copious notes. My only gripe is that the images in both book and DVD are very small-luckily I’ve enjoyed seeing works by Paul Thirkell RE, Michael Craig-Martin, Charlotte Hodes, James Faure-Walker and, of course, Richard Hamilton many times.

Next time when looking at a digital print, I shall turn it on its edge and imagine the thought processes of the artist beneath the surface and enjoy the depth of the personalized surface above.

Gerry Baptist RE
Artist-printmaker

http://www.cellopress.co.uk/celloweb/default.jsp?PageID=1

CAT 2010 Symposium

admin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:40:13 +0000

Ideas Before Their Time: Connecting the Past and Present in Computer Art

Wednesday 3rd February 2010
British Computer Society
First Floor, The Davidson Building
5 Southampton Street
London WC2E 7HA

Speakers include:
Robin Baker, Maria Chatzichristodolou, Paul Coldwell, Stroud Cornock, Douglas Dodds, Fra ncesca Franco, Darko Fritz, David Garcia, Jeremy Gardiner, Sue Gollifer, Janis Jefferies, Isaac Kerlow, Nick Lambert, George Mallen, Bonnie Mitchell, Frieder Nake, Michael O’Rourke, Helen Plumb, Jane Prophet, Bruce Wands, Richard Wright

“There is a mine, a treasure trove, a hoard – I cannot emphasize this too strongly – of art ideas that emerged in the early decades of computers that still have not remotely been explored. We know how this happens. The next big thing comes along and the Zeitgeist has its demands: things get left behind … “- Brian Reffin-Smith

The Symposium
Taking Brian Reffin-Smith’s quote as an inspiration, we intend to explore the ideas that have arisen over the lifetime of “computer art” since the 1960s but have not been fully developed. Over the past four decades, computer artists have innovated in sign ificant ways but many of the concepts they explored were never taken to their conclusion. Primitive technologies and changing art practices consigned many of these ideas to obscurity. In the course of the CAT Project, and the CACHe Project that preceded it, some intrigu ing ideas came to light. We intend to re-examine those ideas in order to create a synergy with current practice, both in theoretical and practical terms. The areas we are examining are presented as f ive broad themes:

- Computer Art & Cybernetics
- Computer Art & Aesthetics
- Computer Art & Space
- Computer Art & Output
- Computer Art & Technocultures

A dedicated website with online booking is available at http://www.technocultures.org.uk/symposium.html

CAT Project Team: Nick Lambert, Jeremy Gardiner and Francesca Franco

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Paul Coldwell prints exhibition

Jonathan Kearney — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:26:27 +0000

The Drawing Gallery presents:

Contemporary Prints

11 November – 19 December 2009

Private view 7 November 3-6pm

www.thedrawinggallery.com

Points of Contact exhibition London

admin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:08:21 +0000

Following the successful exhibition in Brazil earlier this year, the Points of Contact show has a return exhibition at the Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Art & Design in London.

3 British artists and 3 Brazilian: Sandra Rey, Maristela Salvatori, Maria Lucia Cattani, Paul Coldwell, Jonathan Kearney & Tim O’Riley

28 September – 3 October

Opening night/private view: Tuesday 29 September 6pm @ Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Art & Design MAP

Symposium: Wednesday 30 September 2 – 5pm @ Camberwell College of Arts, Main Lecture Hall, Wilson Road MAP

Here is an A4 size map:

Points of Contact exhibition Brazil

admin — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:19:12 +0000

Points of Contact exhibition

18 May – 4 June

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Exchange exhibition between FADE (Fine Art Digital Environment), University of the Arts London and Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, with new work (including bookworks, prints, film and live transmission) by Paul Coldwell, Jonathan Kearney, Tim O’Riley (FADE, UAL), Maria Lucia Cattani, Sandra Rey and Maristela Salvatori (Brazil).

The exhibition will be restaged in the Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Art & Design, 28 Sept – 3 Oct and is accompanied by a catalogue in both Portuguese and English.

Digital Noise – Exhibition and Symposium

admin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:27:18 +0000

DIGITAL NOISE

22 April – 15 May 2009

Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich

Jonathan Kearney and chris+keir

For information about the symposium click here

For all information and directions: www.faderesearch.com/digitaln oise