#generative photography

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Gottfried Jäger – Fotografien der Fotografie. Generative Systeme 1960-2020, (invitation card), Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg, Würzburg, June 17 – September 10, 2023 [Art Books & Ephemera. © Gottfried Jäger]

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DIGITAL PRINTMAKING: CMYK+

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An experimentation in print media: produced digitally.

Inspired by inkjet printers, using no ink or paper.

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I find it incredibly hard to create art inside of guidelines, and so even though this project was originally confined to only overlaying layers of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black - I chose to use 20+ different shades to maximize the possible outcomes and observe how different colours interact with each other.

(4/11 COLLECTED)

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Technical Methods, Materials, Workshop Practices

After a great discussion with Rebecca Court, my module tutor, I’ve been looking into some different techniques for producing pictures. Photolithography and photograms were recommended as options for making particularly crisp images. It seems photolithography would be difficult given the timeframe as there isn’t the facility to do this at Margaret Street or at Parkside, and additionally it seems from what I’ve read that it’s a pretty complex process that would take more than a few weeks to learn to do myself.

So I’ve been doing research into the process involved in making photograms and the ways in which other artists have explored this. I can do this in the dark room at Parkside which is useful. What’s great about this technique is that it can be used to execute a number of variational images in quick succession.

The above image is a couple of pages from one of Dieter Roth’s books - these pictures are photograms and were made with a number of identically-patterned triangles arranged next to and on top of each other in different configurations. It’s a very clever and extremely efficient way to create a wide range of pictures using very limited means (this is the tip of the iceberg in terms of Roth’s output using direct-to-film methods!)

My plan is to use a number of opaque discs (I imagine 1p coins will work best) to act as a resist on the photofilm to create nice clean black circles, which I can quickly arrange and rearrange in patterns related to those in the ink drawings I’ve been making over the last couple of months, which were done using a stencil (see below)

I’ve also been looking into other ways of creatively controlling the exposure of light directly to film. The artist I’ve been reading a lot about is Gottfried Jäger, who is a German photographer and theorist. He spoke about the relationship between artist and apparatus and saw the photograph as a tool of production as well as reproduction. He was a pioneer of what he termed ‘generative photography’ and wrote a fab introduction to the field here: http://www.gottfried-jaeger.de/ckeditor_assets/attachments/11/generative-f-leonardo-1986.pdf 

The image below is one from his Pinhole Structures series, which was made using a multiple pinhole camera with a light pattern subject (diagram at the bottom)

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chasing waterfalls

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It’s no secret that I love a good double exposure, and Chasing Waterfalls was my first experiment with using code to randomize waterfalls.

Unfortunately a couple of matching pieces were generated, however these were burnt and/or the mint cost refunded.

Out of the 33 generated exposures, only 3 minted as perfectly symmetrical art tokens. I used traits to help determine which had minted perfectly - naming each symmetrical pair with alliterated words.

[ 9   | valhalla + vacilando ]

[ 14 | flanerie + fernweh ]

[ 19 | dioptrics + demersal ]

this experiment was like a bolt of creative lightning - later resulting in pikitanga and digital printmaking: cmyk+

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P.S. If you wanna know where I went chasing this waterfall, I found it underneath Aotearoa’s largest shopping mall Sylvia Park. no cap.

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Montreal-Bogotá, Miércoles/Wednesday/Mercredi, Marzo/March/Mars, 05.2014