Screen printing is a starting place for my work as a way to explore the possibilities of giving paper and tangible objects a computational affordance. As screen media continues to becomes the replacement to print, I asked the question why are we eliminating artifact. A screen can be anything it wants media wise, however print media establishes a specialty that distinguishes it from its screen counterpart. With the onset of ubiquitous computing, the users ability to contain and possess data will change. As cloud computing become more relevant and owning actual data becomes obsolete, what will be the new attachment to data? I am proposing that paper with a connection to that computation cloud be the interface for the artifacts that we are continually discarding.
Screen printing is a mode of making that produces an artifact that has a textual aspect that lives out side of digital printed media. The hand made unique aspects of layering ink builds on the ideas of attaching to items of value and care. The ability of an artifact to embody the essence of an experience or a piece of data. Screen printing artifacts with computational affordance is helping me ask questions?
check out thesis website : Marginalia: The Hybrid Textbook
