We showed prints -- and made prints on a REAL Tortilla Press -- at the PRINTERS PLANET Pop-up, in front of the CURRENTS NEW MEDIA Festival exhibition, at the Santa Fe State Fair (while the Rodeo was going on live next door), on June 24th, 2023, 12 - 7 PM:
.png)
The LINKS
The VENDORS
I added links below all the pictures I took of The Vendors:
(Emi Brady of Denver pictured above)
L I V E PRINTMAKING
We got the public to help print on a REAL Tortilla Press, and gave out those round linocut prints for free. Ellie Weadock did most of the printmaking:
Visitors got to choose which round linocut (4 inch diameter) that they wanted to print:
Julie Sola prints
Amy Maestas printed one of
Ellie Weadock's round linocuts
We found 4x4 inch frames at Walmart to frame the 4 inch diameter round prints:
Most (but not all)
of the round linocuts that we printed
during the PRINTERS PLANET in Santa Fe,
individually framed in a nice rectangle
GUADALAJARA
Manuel Guerra of El Paso will be bringing these same small round linocuts to Guadalajara for a "Print Off" with 3 Gatos Press at the Galeria Sepia on July 8, 2023. He will also be bringing round linocuts from other New Mexico and El Paso artists (plus one from Australia):
In fact, we borrowed the idea of both printing on round linocuts and with a Tortilla Press from 3 Gatos Press (Xavier Moreno and Alejandra Mares) of Guadalajara.
Henry Morales of Albuquerque also contributed a couple of round linocuts for Guadalajara (though after the Santa Fe print fair):
Henry Morales of Albuquerque
with two round linocuts for Guadalajara
One of Henry's linocuts
is a bigger-than-life-size
skull of a roadrunner
Carnegie Muir sent us an image from Australia for Guadalajara:
This round linocut is by
Carnegie Muir of Australia
(laser engraved in El Paso)
John Tollett of Santa Fe carved a javelina for Guadalajara:
.jpg)
Javelina by John Tollett of Santa Fe
Virgil Velasco of Albuquerque carved out a wrapped bird for Santa Fe and Guadalajara:
Cody Kamrowski hand carved two round linocut discs for Santa Fe and Guadalajara:
Ellie Weadock made two hand carved prints for Santa Fe and Guadalajara, and printed everyone else's linocuts. Thank you very much Ellie!!!
Krrrl made a lot of laser engraved linocuts, from AI (Artificial Intelligence) images he created in Leonardo.AI, from a computer model based on his own drawing style:
An Artificial Intelligence image
laser engraved into linoleum
We also printed with STAMPING FOAM, from a Midjourney AI image originally engraved in linoleum, and then heat transferred to the Stamping Foam (also available on Amazon and Walmart):
WHAT DID NOT HAPPEN
In the 21st Century we can enhanced our prints with AUGMENTED REALITY. It was too clumsy to showcase this during the print pop-up however, especially when we were busy making prints.
One version did work. We laser engraved a QR CODE into a round linoleum -- which when printed could successfully be scanned with a smart phone. This took one to a WebAR link on someone's server that would bring up a 3D image in the real space, on some newer smart phones:
- The AUGMENTED REALITY link: https://staynalive.net/ar/210223.html
This printed QR Code
This actually worked during rehearsal, as seen in the image below.
However the experience was not smooth. After the viewer gave permission to use the smart phone's camera, he then had to scan the room with his smart phone before the AR image surfaced. And I believe that the AR image is small, and had to be enlarged with two fingers on the smart phone. That is a lot to ask from a casual visitor.
The IDEAL did not really work
The ideal experience would be if the viewer put his smart phone up to the print, and that action brought up an AR (Augmented Reality) image over the print, ideally in 3D.
We did get this to work also in rehearsal, but it usually failed.
The idea was to scan the print below, of the lady riding a rhinoceros, and that action would conjure a 3D tapir in AR (Augmented Reality). One first had to go to a link on someone's server that activated the WebAR procedure:
- The WebAR link: https://files.iowntheinter.net/tapir/
Scanning this image with your phone
The experience is something like the photo below, with the AR tapir floating in 3D over the printed image:
Hopefully we can refine Augmented Reality for future BUCKET EXHIBITIONS.
Even better if the viewer could experience five different AR images, after hoover his phone over five different prints. This might well happen after he scanned one QR code, as the phone might be smart enough to sort everything else out.
CURRENTS NEW MEDIA Festival
In front of the CURRENTS exhibitions the previous week (in the outside space of the printmakers market, June 17th), there were vendors and a few exhibits by students from the ITP program at NYU:
Josh wore a hat holding a cell phone, which gave directions (by a video game?) for where he should walk. Usually it is the human telling the video game what to do:
from ITP at NYU
as a human controlled by a video game
Adan Aga was born without a sense of smell. So he created a machine that would smell for him -- ADNOSE. When one put something under the right nostril the nose machine would take a picture of it, ask GPT3 what it was, and then give out a printed read out in the left nostril:
The ADNOSE instructions
The next PRINTERS PLANET event will be on August 13th, 2023 at the Santa Fe Railyards, and we have already signed up for it:
Also note that Mo'Print is a month of printmaking in Denver next March 2024, like PRINT AUSTIN and PRINT SANTA FE:
No comments:
Post a Comment