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I will present a paper at the WSOA Research Seminar.

The paper is  A Natural Defiance: Etching a Circuit Board in the Printing Studio.

It is draw from research done with Dino Fizotti (MSc Candidate) and Jill Ross, Fine Art Printer of David Krut Fine Art.

Here is a little more on the paper:

A framed presentation of the research outcomes of an experimental (in the scientific sense) research undertaking to develop a circuit board in a fine arts print studio. The project is primarily an experiment in medium convergence. The presentation will focus on the cohesion of fine arts printing and electrical engineering through the development of an interactive digital arts tool. I will use the research outcomes to speak to the post-medium condition as presented by Rosalind Krauss.

This particular circuit board is a tool used in the creation of immersive and interactive works, and is not an artwork in itself but forms part of a work. In the Digital Arts division, use of the board is co-taught by the electrical engineering department as a key learning and development tool in the MA practice program. However, this particular research undertaking addressed the expertise of electrical engineering and fine arts printing, and all the equipment and technique that go with it, as they are put together to develop this tool in the print studio.

The outcome of this research undertaking is twofold. Firstly and also the central topic of the research seminar; it positions an analysis, through documentation, of the enhancement and sharing of knowledge across both fields. It explores how interactive digital art through its natural defiance of purest medium practice acts as a cohesive form for these disparate yet relevant sets of expertise. Using this experimental research as a frame, I address Krauss’s post-medium condition to better understand medium, as well as the redemptive state of the post-medium condition. I additionally address the relationship of electrical engineering to fine arts printing and digital arts, all of whom are located at the same research university. In addition to the above, the experimental research has led to the creation of best practice recommendations and the development of extensive documentation and tutorial material (this will not be presented – only outlined).