
Themes & Topics

Journeys in Print
The theme of this years conference is ‘Borders and Crossings: the artist as explorer’ and is intended to celebrate the practice, concept and application of print and printmaking in its widest possible constituency.
The conference will be structured into a series of parallel sessions that will reflect this diversity of exploration and will accommodate a variety of approaches to presentation of academic papers, illustrated talks and panel discussions. These will broadly cover the following topics and suggested sub-themes which are intended simply as a guide and are by no means exclusive to other proposals.
Suggested themes from the organisers could include:
International Investigations in Print:
Networks and Nodes, Navigating New Territories/Connecting Traditions
Collaboration and Print:
Journeys across Disciplines, Dialogues in Print
New Technologies and Print:
The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction, Reproduction in Real Time
Print on the Peripheries:
Mapping the Unknown, Visualising the Invisible, Remote Environments: Land and Labels
Sciences in Print:
Life Sciences and Reproduction, Mathematics and Multiplication, Physics and the Physical
Books and Journals (Retrospective and Prospective):
Histories and Futures, What is a Book?
Beyond the Flatlands:
Print as Sculpture, Print and Film, From 3D to HD
Print and Publics:
Print as Action/Performance, Print Environments, Policy and Political Press
Print Cultures:
Audio: Discs & Merch, Comic & Zine, Amateur and Enthusiast, DIY