Sequencer: A Hybridization of Print and Moving Image in the Digital Age

Themed Portfolio Exchange organized by Jon Vogt and Nathan Pietrykowski

Description

The invention of print revolutionized how humans share and perceive information. Today, print and its related forms continue to shape how culture, news, and entertainment is recorded, disseminated, and consumed. Other major advancements in media including photography, moving image, and computers in the digital age have also played significant roles. As an art form, printmaking has thrived and continues to thrive by embracing new technological advancements which provide fertile ground for artistic experimentation and hybridization of Media.

This themed portfolio exchange aims to combine and explore the relationships between printmaking and moving image in our current age.

Animation and print media share many of the same tools and approaches to process, such as drawing, registration, layering, and working with the multiple in series. In both disciplines, the inherent labor of tedious stepped processes gives rise to a beautiful, mystifying result– a magic trick where the outcome both reveals and veils its underlying sequence.

Since the genesis of animation in the late 19th century, artists and inventors have been using print processes to produce works of moving image. Notable examples include Chromolithographic Loops, Praxinoscopes, and Zoetropes. The integrated use of print techniques in the animating process has continued to this day in new and exciting ways that often combine with digital tools. Examining the expanded field of print media, numerous artists use printmaking processes to create experimental animation. Sequencer is a print portfolio that explores the hybridization of these two fields.

About the organizers

Jon Vogt is an artist, musician, and educator residing in Athens, GA. He is an Academic Professional and the Art Studio Manager at the University of Georgia's Lamar Dodd School of Art, where he instructs courses in printmaking and foundations and runs a variety of fabrication and digital output labs. He currently serves as the Board President and the Chair of Exhibitions at the Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, aka ATHICA. Jon received an MFA from the University of North Texas in 2015 in Denton, Texas, and earned a Professional Printer Certificate from the Tamarind Institute for Lithography in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2010. Jon's interest in printmaking began at Iowa State University in Ames, IA, where he received his BFA in 2008.

Nathan Pietrykowski is a print media artist and teacher. He received his MFA from Louisiana State University and a BS from the University of Southern Indiana. Currently he is an Instructor in Art at Delta State University in Mississippi. His work has exhibited internationally and nationally in over 100 venues including Highpoint Center of Printmaking in Minneapolis, Big Medium Gallery in Austin, Carnation Contemporary in Portland, Site:Brooklyn, and Manhattan Graphics Center in New York City.

Participants

Jon Vogt, Nathan Pietrykowski, Robyn Wall, Stephanie Alaniz, Barbara Tharas, Howard Paine, Eric Euler, Olivia Fredricks, Mary Climes, Matt Egan, Andrew DeCaen, Serena Perone, small_bars, Travis Janssen, Jacob Taylor Gibson, Katie Garth

Hours

9am-6pm Thursday-Saturday

9am-12pm Sunday

Reception

1:30-3:30pm Thursday October 13

Location

Digital Media Critique Area

Center for Visual Arts 1st floor

Kent State University

Wearing face coverings and being up-to-date on Covid-19 vaccinations are strongly recommended at this location.