The Laser Printmaker, SGCI Portfolio Exchange

above: Monica Farrar

above: Noah Breuer

above: Roberta Restaino

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Location: University of Dallas, Haggerty Lane, Irving, TX 75062. Upper Gallery, Painting/Printmaking Building

Organizer: Dana Potter, MFA candidate, University of Tennessee Knoxville

Statement: Postdigital, emerging technologies, and new media, to name a few, are vague terms used as catch-all funnels for print processes which incorporate laser-cutting, 3D printing, CNC routing, etc. The funnel metaphor, however, stanches fluidity between printmaking techniques and incorporated technologies. A re-imagined structure of these methods may be presented as tree roots with equal stems for laser systems as printmaking’s relationship with paper-making or book-arts. Laser technologies specifically build on similar conceptual questions brought up by printmaking: quality of technique, loss of aura in mechanical reproduction, the look and feel of the hand-made, and issues of physical and time-based labor.

Contributing Artists:

• Miguel Aragon, artist
  
• Denise Bookwalter, Director Small Craft Advisory Press, Professor, Florida State University
  
• Noah Breuer, Assistant Professor, Auburn University
  
• Tim Dooley, Professor of Printmaking, University of Northern Iowa
  
• Monica Farrar, artist
  
• Joseph Lupo, Professor of Art, West Virginia University
  
• Conor McGran, MFA candidate, University of Tennessee Knoxville
  
• Sarah Pike, Director of FreeFall Laser
  
• Dana Potter, MFA candidate, University of Tennessee Knoxville
  
• Roberta Restaino, Adjunct Instructor Printmaking and Foundations, University of Colorado Boulder
  
• Hannah Smith, artist
  
• Meagan Sterling, Professor, Westmont College
  
• Aaron Wilson, Professor of Printmaking, University of Northern Iowa
  
• Jonathan Wright, MFA candidate, Arizona State University
  
• Sangmi Yoo, Associate Professor, Texas Tech University
  

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