October 15th, 2009 § § permalink
RFid tags and reader are becoming more and more accessible in consumer markets. The idea is to do some experiments in giving paper and printed artifacts a computational affordance through the RFid’s. As technology becomes more embedded into our systems, the ability of that technology to engage our role or connection to the content changes. The role of the print medium can potentially be extended through the use of RFid tags and readers. If tags are embedded into the print narrative and incorporate the unique afforance of the RFid then a user can engage in that piece of print media from a new and unique perspective.
The concept is going to explore what paper can become when the technology of RFid and the interactive elements of passive, active, interactive, and networked objects engage the user in a potentially more meaningful, fun, and mystical experience that allows the printed artifact to take on a different role then in opposition to the screen and dynamic content generators.
check out thesis website : Marginalia: The Hybrid Textbook
October 15th, 2009 § § permalink
Screen printing has a unique affordance involved in the making process, since ink is pulled through a screen rather that placed or sprayed by a machine printer, the maker can decided to layer aspects of the composition. Depending on the opacity of the ink used during the printing process, the blending of layers allows for designers/printmakers to utilize the ability to make a 2 color composition a 3 color through blending and overlapping.
In my experiments with conductive ink for screen printing, it made me think of the possibility of having the conductive aspect of my experiments only work when they are layered or overlapping? could my inks when layered have a chemical connection that would render it conductive.
check out thesis website : Marginalia: The Hybrid Textbook
September 29th, 2009 § § permalink
Screen printing has been an Art Form and Industry process for many years. Screen printing is extremely useful for artifacts of print nature from posters to t-shirts to business cards. Screen printing as an art form has been used from as far back as Chinese textiles, the Song Dynasty (960–1279 AD).
The process of using a screen to pull ink puts the maker in control of the printed output rather then a machine in form of a digital printer. The physical nature of applying ink has given arts and designers inspiration and a style that can exist outside newly conventional means of digital printing or offset lithography.
The physical affordance of screen printing allows the maker to thinking differently about the process of production. Screen printing has more steps in the production run then just asking a machine to print but also includes a aura of craft, value and specialty that is missing in the digital output. The production process for screen printing invites the idea of multiplicity. Where a digital printer can make just one, screen printing just one would be entirely to much set up and work.
Hybrid Media Systems is an idea that takes the craft and unique nature of printmaking and blends it with technology to give the artifact an experience aspect, mediated by the dynamic affordance of screen based media and enhanced by the uniqueness of artifacts.
check out thesis website : Marginalia: The Hybrid Textbook
