Since the beginning of the course it has become increasingly apparent that we are in the middle of a rocky transition into a digital age . Technology is constantly evolving at a rapid rate keeping us user's shakily on ours toes. While this age is welcomed whole heartily in most circumstances , a certain nostalgic air floats around what is being left behind especially seeing the use of celluloid in film making fading into the past .
As we are thinking about final projects , I am now looking upon the medium of Printmaking. This is also very much about the process involved in creating a piece of Art. It is an extremely technical process and like the use of film the medium makes you work for a positive result . Even the most experienced artist can not guarantee that it will work every time . This is because of the tenuous materials that are been used , they require sequential elements to reinforce and react together. In some circumstances light and heat have important roles to play in a particular process, so Mother nature even has to be behaving herself on the day. These are all properties of the medium that make it so fragile and unpredictable . This uncertainty creates an element of surprise that makes Printmaking so endearing.
These traditional methods are too been abandoned to make way for this digital transition . Like never before a control now exists in printmaking that opens up new worlds that are non-linear and extensible. I feel this transition presents a chance to collaborate or amalgamate the digital with the traditional in some way, to create new forms of printmaking that are both experimental and current to the technology that now exists.
Yes, knowing what you can control and what you have to make allowances for are extremely important skills with both art and technology. Hopefully, if you have a clear vision of what you'd like to achieve in either medium, you can arrive at your destination without crashing the plane! :)
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