Printmaking Digital Research Lab

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1. DIGITAL LAB Academic Technology Grant 2016 The Academic Technology Grant 2015-2016 funded digital equipment and the conversion of two offices into the Printmaking Digital Research Lab at the Fine Arts Building, Room 45/1608. Additional private funding secured supplementary equipment.
2. PRINTMAKING RESEARCH DIGITAL LAB ACADEMIC TECHNOLOGY GRANT 2015 ! ! Sheila Goloborotko Assistant Professor Printmaking ! John Hutcheson Printmaking Instructor ! ! ! ! FINAL REPORT
3. PRINTMAKING RESEARCH DIGITAL LAB PROPOSAL TRADITIONAL PRINTMAKING STUDIO Our printmaking studio is equipped to teach traditional printmaking techniques but we were lacking digital equipment to provide learning opportunities to our students with the 21st century technology and processes. ! As Printmaking techniques have digitally evolved in the last decade it was imperative that our studio would get outfitted with computers, scanners, laser and wide-format printers to attend the demands of the medium, students’ needs and faculty research. ! Our printmaking faculty is devoted to a creative research that supports discovery and exploration in new works that push the boundaries of art-making.
4. PRINTMAKING RESEARCH DIGITAL LAB PROJECT RENOVATIONS Two adjacent faculty offices were joined to create the space for our Lab. The renovation was done during Winter break and digital equipment installation was completed by the end of February 2016.
5. PRINTMAKING RESEARCH DIGITAL LAB EQUIPMENT Income: Private Donor $2,500.00 Academic Technology Grant $1,800.00 Art Department (10% AT Grant) $200.00 TOTAL: $4,500.00 Unforeseen expense due to new classroom / change of code Horn/Strobe Device (paid by donor’s fund) $2,007.90 ! Available funds $2,429.13 ! - HP DJ T120 24" $765.04 - HP LASERJET PRO M201DW Printer $182.88 - Plustek OpticPro A320 Tabloid Flatbed Scanner $429.99 - iMac 21.5-inch $1,339.00 2.8GHz Quad-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 3.3GHz" - AppleCare Protection Plan for iMac $119.00 ! TOTAL EXPENDITURE $2,835.91 ! Additional Department Funds $406.78 Plustek OpticPro A320 HP DJ T120 iMac 21.5-inch - HP LASERJET PRO Printer Projector and screen installed Currently, students have the opportunity to create new works using the equipment purchased with the support of the ATG2015. ! In addition to digital equipment our digital projector and screen were installed in the Lab. Students and faculty are able to use the digital projector and video for lectures and presentations. ! In the past, faculty used a temporary solution of a projector and desktop installed in a rolling cart—a disruptive and uncomfortable routine. We were honored to receive a Fall 2015 ATG to purchase digital equipment for the Printmaking area on its initial steps in developing a state-of-the-art Printmaking Digital Research Lab where students and faculty are able to incorporate digital technology in the creation of contemporary prints. ATG 2015
6. PRINTMAKING RESEARCH DIGITAL LAB DEVELOPMENT Our mandate is to promote research of innovative and diverse processes as an important way to ensure that our program stays current and contributes to the development and relevance of our field. It is our mission to prepare students to enter graduate schools or the workforce skilled with current tools, technologies and methodologies pertinent to contemporary art. ! In order to complete our renovation and comply with established safety regulations, it became necessary to use funds from our private donor to install one horn/strobe combination device in this newly configured space. We now have the ideal space for our Lab; but our Lab still lacks necessary equipment to run proficiently. Each semester the digital Lab will be used by no less than 120 students enrolled in Printmaking. We continue applying for grants to outfit our state-of- the-art Printmaking Digital Research Lab. LABORATORY
7. PRINTMAKING RESEARCH DIGITAL LAB IMPACT RESEARCH | CREATE | ORGANIZE | COMMUNITY Our Printmaking Research Digital Lab is a hub where students learn to research and create digitally generated work. The Lab is also a place where students learn how to organize and manage their digital footprint as individual artists and participants of the rapidly growing printmaking community. ! The Lab is a fundamental resource center for our UNF Print Guild, a student run organization interested in raising awareness of fine art printmaking among our community. Our active and diverse guild organizes community events with hands-on live-printing, demonstrations, exhibitions and print sales. The guild is engaged in raising funds to support their members to attend national conferences in our field. ! It was in our new Lab that the guild prepared a presentation for Student Governance to request funding. Our Lab was the perfect environment with a mix of computer stations and a quiet discussion area! Our students created a powerpoint presentation and projected trial runs. The Print Guild received a $2,000 grant from Student Governance and three students will participate in the upcoming Southern Graphics Council International conference in Portland. This conference is a great opportunity for students interested in pursuing graduate schools and networking for a career in printmaking.
8. PRINTMAKING RESEARCH DIGITAL LAB STUDENTS The impact of our Lab is palpable! Our students work traditionally and digitally and the work produced is as powerful as the community they build. ! Currently, the Print Guild is collectively creating a blog to share information and announce their many activities to UNF students and broader community. ! Our printmaking students are creating groundbreaking work: one student uses digital media to prepare images for a virtual “reality headset” and is currently working on an exhibition for FSCJ Kent Campus Gallery that opens in May; another student applies for a SMART Grant to illustrate the lives of Cuban women; a senior student mixes traditional photographic cyanotypes with etchings; many document the work they create and use their archived images to search for professional opportunities. This semester we all celebrated the news as one of our own was accepted for the Tamarind master printer training, a highly competitive opportunity at the renowned institute at the University of New Mexico. IMPACT
9. PRINTMAKING RESEARCH DIGITAL LAB IMPACT FACULTY Professor Goloborotko uses the digital Lab to develop her creative research “1001 Dreams”. This project is currently showcased at MOCA Jacksonville in ”The Other: Nurturing a New Ecology in Printmaking” from January 23, 2016 - April 10, 2016. ! In this ongoing interactive public installation at MOCA the public is invited to enter their dreams in the virtual kiosks; as visitors enter their dreams pedestrians in several cities around the globe will come across a printed pillowcase depicting a text and scene of a dream. People discover them as soft found objects; read them; and maybe even take them home. Then follow instructions printed thereon to send me their dreams—which then are made into new pillowcases that are going to be left all around the world. ! This project, a public art installation, has as goals: to make material, what is immaterial; to make public what is private; and, to question the concept of authorship. Dreams, compiled from our collective unconscious, do not develop individually but are inherited. !
10. PRINTMAKING RESEARCH DIGITAL LAB TEACHING: DIGITAL LAB This coming summer Professor Goloborotko will teach a screen print class where students will learn how to use photomechanical techniques to transfer an image from a transparent surface to a screen prepared with photo emulsion using a UV light source. Photographic images or images that are hand-drawn (autographic) will be printed on a transparent material such as Mylar or acetate and will be transferred to an emulsion covered screen, which is processed by exposing it to light for a set amount of time. Photographic or autographic images will be scanned and manipulated digitally in a computer before a transparency is printed. Digital images will be printed as a one-color stencil (spot color) or as a 4-color separation process (CMYK). ! Professor Hutcheson's future plans for the Lab is to run “Photo-Litho." Still in the design phase for that class he plans to have students use the R2000 printer and Photoshop to print transparencies on Pictorico (new vellum like substrate). Printed images will be exposed on photo sensitive litho aluminum plates. PROGRESS
11. HUB HIVE + DIGITAL HUMANITIES RESEARCH !nkering  with  data  collec!on,  matrix  and  printmaking ! ! Students from Art & Design will laser-cut, engrave, and tinker with computer-generated and photographic data onto different materials and develop an archive of printing plates, screens and blocks; such matrixes will be printed using traditional and contemporary printing processes. Students will explore and document printing results and both matrixes and prints will compose a library of resource material available for future investigations. Research data from other departments will be solicited via e-mail and social media. Students will tinker with the information, phenomena, tools and materials and create multiples that will be the mediators between scientific and creative research.
12. HUB HIVE + PRINTMAKING RESEARCH DIGITAL LAB PUBLICATION This project is included in The University of North Florida Digital Humanities Initiative (DHI) website: http://unfdhi.org/portfolio/ hub-hive-tinkering-with- data-collection-matrix-and- printmaking/ ! ! ! DHI promotes collaboration on interdisciplinary projects that combine the use of technology with materials and methodologies from the Humanities, Fine Arts and Social Sciences. ! New DHI website (http://unfdhi.org/) was referenced in the March issue of CIRT News. This was be the first time the site was mentioned in a public fashion and viewed by people outside the immediate circle of those involved with the Initiative.
13. PRINTMAKING RESEARCH DIGITAL LAB ART AND GEOLOCATION COAS Art & Design, UNF Gallery and the Environmental Center are launching a new collaboration and will jury an exhibition that celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Sawmill Slough Preserve, a pristine 382 acre natural area designated a preserve in May 2006 by UNF President John Delaney. ! Artwork must be accompanied by digital mapping location. This can be easily created using free global positioning apps. Check schedule for exhibition info session(s). A few examples of global positioning apps should be listed. Artists are invited to visually explore and investigate our nature reserve’s wildlife, flora and landscape features and create works motivated by this immersion. ! The exhibition Pre[serve] will seek works that bear witness to the preserve's natural beauty and capture the magic of this monumental environment. This exhibition will showcase works that share personal experiences; inspire others to connect with this natural environment; and evoke awareness of the preserve's perpetuity.Works selected for Pre[serve] will be digitally mapped using geolocation tools. This exhibition will produce a site-specific evidentiary trail that will be linked to an interactive map with accurate representations of specific areas. This map will be available as an interactive piece during the exhibition and virtually online. Pre[serve] COLLABORATIONS
14. PRINTMAKING RESEARCH DIGITAL LAB DIGITAL PRINTMAKING Digital innovations remain entangled with contemporary printmaking and we need additional funding to complete our Printmaking Digital Research Lab purchasing key pieces of equipment. ! Our state-of-the-art Lab will be a new destination where students and faculty will be able to incorporate traditional techniques to cutting-edge technology in the creation of contemporary prints. Our digital lab goals align with our department of Art & Design website mandate, “The comprehensive and multifaceted curriculum is designed to produce an artistically sophisticated graduate with realistic expectations to compete in the job market or pursue graduate study.” FUTURE
15. PRINTMAKING RESEARCH DIGITAL LAB POST DIGITAL PRINTMAKING Dynamic and democratic, the world of printmaking continues to evolve as a more visible, accessible, and multidisciplinary program than ever before. Experimentation and invention are an intrinsic part of printmaking and our mission is to prepare our students and studios to the post-digital printmaking era with laser cutters, CNC routers, 3D printers and scanners. ! “Post-digital printmaking navigates a crossover zone where computer technology affects the material realm and where digitally mediated and traditional processes collaborate.” (Castanese, 19) FUTURE
16. PRINTMAKING RESEARCH DIGITAL LAB ! ! College of Arts and Sciences Department of Art & Design ! ACADEMIC TECHNOLOGY GRANT Fall 2015 ! ! Sheila Goloborotko Assistant Professor Printmaking ! John Hutcheson Printmaking Instructor ! ! ! ! FINAL REPORT