| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北藝術大學 === 造形研究所碩士班 === 96 === Abstract
In my early contact with art I paid special attention to minute and detailed expressions. Several years after working with prints I began to pay more attention to the printmaking process, especially the production process itself and the idea of indirectness. I thought about how during the reproduction process the prototype can be reproduced like documents, in such a way that the re-producing and re-presentation of documents can be taken as the major creative process. This way printmaking can be taken as a form of media and printmaking as a reproductive act.
On the direction of my creative endeavor, I emphasize a discussion of prints’ role as media for the transmission of information and the concept of time in the reproduction process:
The media character of prints lies in the fact that reproduced prints may be exhibited in different sites. Reproduced prints are usually re-interpreted from the prototype or are indirect encoding of an original idea. As the forms of reproduced prints have similar copies with which they can be compared, it is a challenge for the printmaker to make each reproduced frame that forms part of a set of prints appears similar with the others. I have also assumed that my body is a machine. Each signature and differences in symbols make each print different from the other such that although each print looks similar with others, they are at the same time behavioral documents made during a specific point in time. A single print can transmit the original idea. A set of multiple prints can show the passage of time and signs of repetitive acts. The character of time is linked with the reproduction of prints, which can be standardized. The ratio of repetitive acts is higher in printmaking than those of other genres, yet the repeated used of the prototype to make prints contributes to indirectness.
The media character of prints’ transmitted message and the concept of time in indirect production are discussed in Chapter 2 and 3:
Chapter 2 focuses on documents created by printmaking behavior, in which documents are made into frame-by-frame animation, each frame slightly different from the previous yet sharing similarities. Then, these prints showing slight differences are reconstituted to come up with a major form for repeated acts.
Chapter 3 discusses the encoding processes for old media and new media from the point of view of the addition or reduction arising from the sharing of messages, the sharing platform for many types of media and image editing software, the different encoding modes arising from different characteristics of the medium such as pixel count and color separation, and the use of a randomly taken self image that was subjected to encoding to create a new one.
I have tried to combine the printmaking processes by document integrating the action process so as to show the media character of prints as well their time concept. When messages are repeatedly encoded to create new modalities, the process of communication and action still repeat on and on, while they also continue to show differences.
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