User:0890763

Jane Bergkotte

Who am I?

E-mail: 0890763@hr.nl
Department: Illustration

Printing

What is my definition of 'printing'?

In my opinion printing means pressing material onto or into a surface that leaves a mark behind.
This can be permanent or temporary depending on the materials and surfaces that are used to print.

Gouden Handjes

For some research I went to 'Het Nieuwe Instituut' to a so called 'Thursday Night Lecture' and this one was going to be about craft. The lecture was called ' Gouden Handjes' where different artists were lecturing about their ideas about craft and projects that they thought were relevant to craft. Three lectures really inspired me that night, Studio Spass , From Form and Sooji Lee.

These three artists gave me all some inspirational advice during their lectures, I wrote down some key features/moto's ;
Studio Spass : " Go big, go bold use whatever you find."
From Form : " Back to the field." (From digital form to craft & from analog to digital).
Sooji Lee : " One's attitude shaped by endless repetition"
Sooji inspired em the most by what she told, she was talking about that everybody can design nowadays using the Adobe programs.
She was asking herself and us the same question: " Am I training myself to fit the tools or can I train a tool to fit myself? I think this is the reason for craftsmen, don't try to adapt to a tool, let that tool adapt to you or make your own tool.

Why I Make

Introduction

I chose ' Digitalcraft' as a practice because I really like to work with my hands. I really fancy older printing techniques which I had already used multiple times for my Illustration projects. Although I fancy older crafts I do like working with newer techniques as well, I try to explore as much techniques as possible within the school. At some point I would really like to combine these older and newer techniques together within a project. (I thought at first that this practice was all about this point of view.)
When we were introduced to the 4 disciplines within Digitalcraft I thought that 'printing' was the least interesting one. Probably because I thought that I already know a lot about these techniques and wanted to do something totally different.
But after thinking about it and just start to work on concepts I came up with something interesting to work with.

Book

Drudge

People nowadays tend to do everything as fast and easy as possible, everyone is coming up with shortcuts or new methods to do things faster. I really like the evolution of printing and the methods getting created to make this easier. However the easiest way of making things isn't always the way of the best quality for the end product. I want to make clear what could happen if you would use different techniques to print something not only to discover these methods for myself but also to show the possibilities these techniques have. And maybe inspire someone to use it for their (next) project.
Therefore I made a book full of four printing examples.
I printed the word 'Drudge' which Translated to dutch means: 'Ploeteren/ Zwoegen'.
I printed this word in 1 week time, by using four different techniques which all are used for the last print. I used every print as a point of departure for the next technique (The letterpress print I used as a design for the Linoprint, the Linoprint as a design for the Silkscreenprint and Silkscreenprint for the Etch). By using this word and print it in such a long time I want to emphasize my message and really take it to its limit.

Letterpress

Linoprint

Silkscreenprint

Etch

Exposition

Together with Eady's great Abstract pieces with black and white on transparant sheets on the wall, Thijs his amazing silkscreen printed animation with pink on magazine pages in frames on the other wall
And my own printed 'Drudge' book beneath it.

Artifact

A machine

A machine that doesn't help you at all, a machine that slows down your making process, a machine that makes you think while you make.
A machine that gives you a lot of control, but loses the ability to work fast. It works really slow, which will make people think, or quit.
Either way I made this machine to emphasize that we dont need to rush things, and that we dont always need to control stuff.

Manifesto

File:Manifesto.pdf