Time-Based Prints _saturday, march 13_16:30–17:30 (eastern us)_
Printmaking has increasingly lent itself to being represented in time-based media. While there is a rich history of documentary films that show the artist or printer at work, the print as multiple, often variable, and as a process is increasingly becoming a subject of time-based artworks themselves. As MOV, MPG, or GIF files, these can be shared and exhibited on the internet, bringing the time-based print, consistent with its historical role as a multiple, onto smart phones, tablets and computers. In this session, three artists using time-based printmaking will talk about their approach and methods.
Haley Takahashi, Panel Chair
MFA student, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Haley Takahashi is a first-year MFA student in printmaking at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Takahashi is a Japanese-American artist from Fort Collins, Colorado. She received a BFA in printmaking as well as a minor in Art History from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has exhibited nationally as well as participating in and planning print exchanges that have been shown nationally and internationally. For the Remote Contact Symposium, she is coordinating the “Spaces Between” exchange portfolio. haleytakahashi.com
Mary Climes MFA student, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
"Prints as GIFs." This presentation features a GIF video gallery. GIFS are a type of file that were created to be experienced on the internet. The format uses a set range of color (256 colors per frame) that makes the format more conducive to simple, graphic images. In addition, there is also an absence of audio. As GIFs repeat in a potentially endless cycle, these specifications make the GIF a perfect vehicle for the animated print. I will conclude the presentation with a short tutorial on how to make a GIF file.
Mary Climes is a native of the Jersey Shore, received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is a current third year MFA candidate in printmaking at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She has exhibited throughout the US in galleries as well as independent comics expos and festivals. maryclimes.com
Wuon-Gean Ho PhD student, CFPR, University of the West of England
"Representing Prints in Time." My short animation, Shadow Boy and Shadow Girl, is created from two sets of reduction linocut prints, with over 1500 in-between frames made in photoshop. Reduction linocut involves carving whiteness into a dark ground, and I wanted to explore the limitations of using a horizontal line as my only mark. I also wanted to see what would happen when I took the reduction linocut to its logical conclusion of complete obliteration. In this talk I will cover how certain specifics of the printmaking process, such as variable inking, the multiplied image and traces of touch brings a unique quality to animations and time-based media. I will also look at approaches by other artists that reveal the matrix and its offspring to be dynamic and evolving in time.
Wuon-Gean Ho was born in Oxford, and graduated with a BA in History of Art from Cambridge University, before taking up a Japanese Government Scholarship in 1998 to study woodblock printmaking in Japan. She later studied MA Printmaking at the Royal College of Art, graduating with a distinction in 2016, and then was a printmaking fellow at the Royal Academy Schools in London.
Currently she is a PhD student at the Centre for Fine Print Research (CFPR), University of West of England, Bristol, UK, researching the conveyance of touch in printmaking through time-based media. She is also the inaugural editor of the IMPACT Printmaking Journal, an academic peer-reviewed journal published by the Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of West England. www.wuongean.com