Polymer plate printing on the letterpress!

Here are two places where you can expose digital files to polymer plate and then print on the letterpress. It can be text, image or both and is a photo-reliefe process much like linocut or woodcut, but exposed digitally and printed. Of course you can also expose and develop your polymer plates here as we have the material, but sending it out gives better (and more expensive) results.

Boxcar Press in NYC (by mail)

or

That Sky Blue in Montreal

The difference between the two is that boxcar has been doing this much longer and are the known experts in this technique. They can advise you by email what will work and how. They are more expensive and you have to factor in shipping. Service is still pretty fast.

That Sky Blue, is right here in Montreal and offer a student discount, I believe.

Final Crit Times

MEETINGS WILL BE IN MY STUDIO EV- 6.435


Monday Dec 6th

9:30.....Alexis A-L

9:45.....Madeleine

10:00....Kevin Lee

10:15....OPEN!!!

Tuesday Dec 7th
6:00.....Brian
6:15..... Heather

6:30.....Fotini

6:45.....Guillaume

7:00.....Jennifer

7:15.....Break

7:30.....Ngoc-An

7:45.....Laura-Chanel

8:00.....Quentin

8:15.....Break

8:30.....Alexis D-C

8:45.....Claudia

9:00.....OPEN!!!!

9:15.....Andrew

9:30.....Jean-Louis

9:45.....Thomas

openendedgroup.com

Here is a link the website of the Open Ended Group of which Shelly Eshkar and Paul Kaiser are part of. They did the "little people" sidewalk projection project we saw in the Aspect videos and that I was asked about last evening.

http://openendedgroup.com/

You can find the info to that specific project in the artworks section under 'pedestrian'. though, it is worth looking through their other projects as well as they are all as interesting as that one.

Truth - Brief definitions from last class

For those people interested in perhaps pursuing the ideas a I very briefly introduced last class here is the PPT from the lecture.

If you are interested in this topic remember that it is not easily resolved. Philosophers have been dealing with these issue for thousands of years. The best you can do is start to make sense of theme and then as a basis for your own questioning of other topics. The Library has many books on these concepts and others that are related.

I, personally, think that these issues are fundamental in all art, politics, religion and social interactions, as they are requisite in all judgments making.

Download powerpoint presentation here!

David Spriggs

http://www.davidspriggs.com/

Here is the website to Montreal Artist David Spriggs. He is an MFA graduate from Concordia's Sculpture program and has a very unique and interesting practice. And, while his website is beautiful, the dimensional layered painting/sculptures he does need to be seen in real life to be fully understood.

I believe that a few can be seen at Art Mur in Rosemont.

Print scheduler and Crit notes

Here is the link to the site that you reserve your print times for the 9th floor labs. If this is your first time up there you should check the schedule and come by when a monitor is there to see if they can help you calculate what the cost will be of printing your job. 

http://printmediaschedule.hybrid.concordia.ca/index.php

Remember that you need to factor some tests and specifically test strips to check things out for colour and quality. If you do not do this you will be required to pay for prints even if they come out wrong. 

Remember, that 8 1/2 x 11 and 11 x 17 prints are not what I am looking for in this class. If you print make sure the size has a reason. I prefer large prints over small ones, unless you do many and they have a conceptual reason for being small. 

If you want to print externally, there is a tab in the side bar of the blog with a few outsource places. I heard good thing about surface jalouse if any one wants to try them out. AS with the lab upstairs, you must talk to these people way before you bring a file on for printing to get an idea about time ad cost. most places will charge a hefty premium for stuff printed the same day so plan ahead. 

For the crit in 2 weeks, remember you must have something to show. and talk about. If you don't get your print done, you still need a presentation for me. Not showing to the crit without a medical reason and proof is a fail for the crit. There will be no compromises here.

Jim Campbel

Jim Campbel's work varies from print to physical computing interactive sculptures and animated panels. His entire body of work is worth a deep look and is both technically interesting and very refined and poetic at the same time.

http://www.jimcampbell.tv/