Print as Interface – Artist talk at Printeractive symposium - Liverpool John Moores University School of Art and Design

Abstract

The intersection between our digital and aesthetic worlds is where I situate my art works: a hybrid space where technological control meets emotion and memory of the human experience.
As a visual artist I am utilising commercial digital 3D mapping instruments, seeking to change perceptions and challenge our understanding of post industrial wetlands through my art practice. My recent research projects bring together the worlds of Fine Art, Environmental conservation, Ecology, Environmental science as well as Industrial and Commercial surveying offering new ideas and ways of seeing these post industrial landscapes.
This presentation will explore how cross-disciplinary art practice can be a platform of multiple dimensions, providing an essential link between the traditions of the handmade with the potential of digital technologies. Printmaking and drawing combine with data information taken from 3D laser scanners and conductive ink technology to offer a view beyond our own human visual capability resulting in a re-imagined vision of these liminal spaces linking digital and aesthetic.
Images presented create an opportunity to explore what is beyond a 2d surface becoming a visualisation of the point where our physical and digital worlds overlap, the edge between location and how we feel to be part of it.