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Digitalisation: Re-Imaging the Real Beyond Notions of the Original and the Copy in Contemporary Printmaking: an Exegesis Edith Cowan University Research Online Theses: Doctorates and Masters Theses 2017 Imperceptible Realities: An exhibition – and – Digitalisation: Re- imaging the real beyond notions of the original and the copy in contemporary printmaking: An exegesis Sarah Robinson Edith Cowan University Follow this and additional works at: https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses Part of the Printmaking Commons Recommended Citation Robinson, S. (2017). Imperceptible Realities: An exhibition – and – Digitalisation: Re-imaging the real beyond notions of the original and the copy in contemporary printmaking: An exegesis. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1981 This Thesis is posted at Research Online. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1981 Edith Cowan University Copyright Warning You may print or download ONE copy of this document for the purpose of your own research or study. 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Higher penalties may apply, and higher damages may be awarded, for offences and infringements involving the conversion of material into digital or electronic form. Imperceptible Realities An exhibition – and – Digitalisation: Re-imaging the real beyond notions of the original and the copy in contemporary printmaking An exegesis This thesis is presented in partial completion for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Sarah Robinson Edith Cowan University School of Arts and Humanities 2017 Abstract This PhD practice-led research project provides a broad overview of how newer print technologies can bring about enhanced understandings of the world whilst simultaneously questioning the value of such processes in contrast to traditional means of image making. My curiosity pivots on the worry that something essential about representation of the real might be lost if humanity were to embrace digital methods only. Through my creative project I address my concerns to re-image representations of the real beyond notions of the original and the copy through contemporary printmaking. The research culminated in the exhibition Imperceptible Realities and an exegesis. In examining Jean Baudrillard’s concept of simulacra this research argues for the continuing relevance of traditional etching techniques through a pivotal case study that scrutinised Rembrandt van Rijn’s etching The Shell (Conus marmoreus). In contrasting traditional etching techniques with newer methods of digital printmaking a significant copy, derived from a similar shell specimen that Rembrandt had observed, manifested itself in contemporary 3D print. The copying process focused the investigation into questioning the aesthetic value of this new shell in digitalised 3D form. In the contemporary printmaking field there is evidence for the continued integration of traditional and digital approaches to printmaking. New pathways were examined in printmaking to allow creative explorations of visual boundaries between contemporary images affected by digital erasure. The innovative use of photogrammetry software focused the investigation into the effects of digital capabilities on image making. The effect of examining the digital relationship in contemporary printmaking revealed that ignoring aesthetic differences between the original and copy brought about by digitised re-imaging are seemingly lost at the expense of disengagement with the physical world. As a result digital and traditional spaces that meet ii Abstract collaboratively through print are advantaged in the 3D printed copy itself and employed to create new understandings in creative practice. Viewing observed differences in the 2D and 3D printed copy itself became key in creating new images, beyond a hybridised printmaking process—such understandings that examined the divisive relationship between digital and traditional printmaking processes becomes invigorated with possibility. This research posits such a position by suggesting that if traditions in the printmaking field are ignored by the continued digitalisation of images through and within the employment of technologies, something is lost. Perceptual experiences of the physical world are seemingly misplaced at the expense of replacing such immediate experience with simulacra and an inward bias toward the screen. Adopting a practice-led research methodology revealed the subtleties of the ongoing relationship of digital capabilities affecting the materiality of traditional printmaking. The applications of innovative interdisciplinary discoveries to my contemporary arts practice drew on strong partnerships and collaborative relationships developed with the fields of chemistry, engineering and science. I applied these discoveries to my contemporary arts practice to examine the effects of digital capabilities and the materiality of traditional printmaking. To embrace conceptual growth creative work the research drew on philosopher Gilles Deleuze and psychiatrist Félix Guattari’s notion of the rhizome. The presence of simulacra in the world has continued to expand as digital technologies proliferate. The application of traditional printmaking and digital printmaking through open thinking offers a different way to understand physical aspects of the world and create propositions that go beyond re-imaging the real. iii Abstract Declaration I certify that this thesis does not, to the best of my knowledge and belief: § incorporate without acknowledgement any material previously submitted for a degree or diploma in any institution of higher education § contain any material previously published or written by another person § except where due reference is made in the text of this thesis, or § contain any defamatory material. Signature Sarah Robinson Date: June 2017 iv Declaration Acknowledgements An Australian Postgraduate Award and an Award for Excellence have generously supported this PhD research through the Edith Cowan University’s Graduate Research School. I would like to thank all the Edith Cowan University staff whom I have had amazing conversations with over the past three and a half years. I particularly acknowledge Heather Boyd, the eResearch coordinator at Edith Cowan University, for her continuous support in securing access and help with 3D print technologies. I also thank Dr Kevin Hayward from the Edith Cowan University Engineering Department, who provided me with expert advice in my early experiments with 3D printing. I also particularly extend my gratitude to the printmaking and workshop staff and my loyal colleagues and peers from studio 5.110 and to the Spectrum Project Space for supporting my exhibition. I have drawn breath in caves, climbed a radar tower positioned on sand dunes, traversed limestone cliffs and the beaches below, and entered the chemistry laboratory—for this wonderful access to science and geology I thank the following people. Associate Professor Paul Bourke, formerly of the University of Western Australia for his extensive support in helping me access and understand photogrammetry techniques. In relation to the chemical analysis of Xanthorrhoea preissii resin, I thank Dr Sze How Bong and Dr Joel Gummer at the Separation Science and Metabolomics Laboratory (SSML) at Murdoch University. I also extend great thanks to the following people: Mark Datodi for arranging access for me to use the nitric-acid etching at Central TAFE, (Training and Further Education) Perth; Alan Smith from the printmaking department of the Royal College of Art for sharing his etching expertise; Julia Coggins and all the staff that I met at Yanchep National Park, in particular Rob Susac and the amazing cave guides with whom I conversed underground; John Bunting for v Acknowledgements sharing his valuable time and geological expertise while accompanying me on my fieldwork at Point Peron; Nick Mortimer and Marija Jukic for their expert insight into scripting toxicity and the real. For the United Kingdom (UK) arm of the research, I thank the staff at the British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings and I sincerely thank the following people: Daniel Medley and Gayle Pennington for arranging my unlimited access to Wookey Hole Caves and I also thank all the Wookey Hole Caves guides; Jim Hanwell, my geology teacher; and the staff at the Wells Museum in Somerset. I am extremely grateful to my supervisory team, Dr Lyndall Adams and Dr Paul Uhlmann, for their intellectual rigor in steering me through an intellectual experience that has given me back my creative life. I also thank Dr Nien Schwarz for her support in the early stages of the research underground in Crystal Cave. My thanks are also to my family, Ian, Jake and Ellie for their support during the research process, and Nicholas, my brother, and my mother, Patricia Francis Robinson, for her interest in history that she passed down to me, and
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