PRINTED MATTER / DRUCKSACHE
The material world of traditional printing technology vanishes. The world of images cast in metal dissolves…
During a stay as Artist-in-Residence at the Institute for Research in Applied Arts of the Fachhochschule Dusseldorf in November 2010, I looked for an artistic parable for this process of decay, but also searched for the artistic potential offerd by modern digital printing techniques, for instance by Rapid Prototyping.
A German translation of the term “RAPID PROTOTYPING” is “3 D DRUCKVERFAHREN“ [3 D PRINT PROCEDURE]. I took it literally and “fed in” analogous print designs via the 3 D or 2 D scanner, and then I used them as basis for my reshapings in the computer. What was “printed” by the 3 D printer in a final process, has a content-related connection with the printing procedures formerly used, and it bears an incorporated reference to the history of printing.
Just like reproductions of a printing block are considered originals in the arts market – which they are not in the strict sense – in this field the question of which is the original and which is a copy, what is the prototype and which is a reproduction, and even copyright-related issues arise. For me it is about questions that you automatically come across when applying digital imaging and shaping procedures, and which you have to face.
The material world of traditional printing technology vanishes. The world of images cast in metal dissolves…
During a stay as Artist-in-Residence at the Institute for Research in Applied Arts of the Fachhochschule Dusseldorf in November 2010, I looked for an artistic parable for this process of decay, but also searched for the artistic potential offerd by modern digital printing techniques, for instance by Rapid Prototyping.
A German translation of the term “RAPID PROTOTYPING” is “3 D DRUCKVERFAHREN“ [3 D PRINT PROCEDURE]. I took it literally and “fed in” analogous print designs via the 3 D or 2 D scanner, and then I used them as basis for my reshapings in the computer. What was “printed” by the 3 D printer in a final process, has a content-related connection with the printing procedures formerly used, and it bears an incorporated reference to the history of printing.
Just like reproductions of a printing block are considered originals in the arts market – which they are not in the strict sense – in this field the question of which is the original and which is a copy, what is the prototype and which is a reproduction, and even copyright-related issues arise. For me it is about questions that you automatically come across when applying digital imaging and shaping procedures, and which you have to face.
Printed Matter
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