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/

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Lozano-Hemmer is a very interesting and prolific artist dealing with new media and interactive architectural installations. He is a Concordia Graduate is Physical Chemistry. 

Here are some links to interesting projects of his, but it is worth taking the time to navigate his site and go deeper in the entire body of work. 

body movies

close up

pulse park

Thomas Ruff

It is really hard to show a selection of Thomas Ruff's work as his artistic practice is huge. Each large series explores a specific element of contemporary culture or technology. He has looked at the modern nude through academic compositions of modified internet porn images, he has explored jpg compression with images of nature and disaster (also culled from the internet), he has examined 3D software animation curves, photoshop layering of comic books, stellar photography, extreme large scale photo, stereoscopic photography, etc. the list is almost endless. 

Ruff, perhaps a prime example of what my project is asking for. He looks at technology and what technology allows or facilitates. He maintains a conceptual practice, while also mixing it with a very aesthetic one. He will always allow the technology to take centre stage, but will intervene with a very trained eye to make sure all compositions are aesthetic and balanced.  

Loretta Lux

Loretta Lux is a very successful german artist who's work is a fusion of photography, very meticulous digital retouching and painting. Her education and training was as a painter. After graduating from painting she ventured almost completely unversed into photo and digital and I feel that is what made her strength. 

Her work makes many references to a painting tradition, renaissance art, and traditions of portraiture while very openly referencing very contemporary media and technology.

Reworking the blog design

I am currently tweeking the way the blog will work. My new idea is to have all the important references linked in the side bar ie. Course outline. And I will post artist and discussion points in the regular blog page.

Artist site worth seeing: Cory Arcangel

Here is a link to Cory Arcangel's blog/site/portfolio/whatever. It is full of playful interactions with both technology and pop culture. Check out the section of "things i made". Sometimes you need to try a little bit to make things work as he has done some programming and the technology doesn't always work. He is also a bit of an expert at moding old game cartridges to create interactive game art. Look for his works " I shot Andy Warhol" and "Super Mario Clouds".

http://www.coryarcangel.com/

New sections section in the side bar

I have created a section in the side bar where we will place appendices. For now, there is only an artist reference page that contains one artist that may be interesting to look at but i will add more throughout the week. Please look into them further as, for the most part, the few images and simple description I give will not adequately explain their link to the subject matter we are looking at.

Class Outline

Here is the class outline in PDF form.

Class outline here

Welcome to PRIN 351/498E

I'm glad to have you all in this class and am looking forward to doing some interesting things with this subject.

As of now, the blog will be the number one reference for all communications concerning this class. If Possible, you should subscribe with a feed reader or as a follower, or just make the site your homepage for the duration to stay informed.

On the very rare chance I have to cancel a class I will post it here as well (but, I really would not count on it every happening. In my entire undergrad, and Master's I missed a total of 4 classes, so it is not likely)