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“Print Fiction” continues as a virtual stage and space for exhibitions and further activities.
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“Print Fiction” continues as a virtual stage and space for exhibitions and further activities.
More info coming soon.
Print Fiction on facebook
May 31 – June 24, 2012,
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Artists and graphic designers present printed matter – such as books, posters or magazines – in the digital environment of web-portfolios. There are a few examples of printed matter which pretend their physical dasein throughout the web without ever getting produced or even being published in the "real world". Thereby the digital presentation of those fictive products is guided by their analogue realizability. Actually there are no limitations to the enactment of fictive printed-products in the net. Therefore the exhibition "Print Fiction" wants to encourage artists and graphic designers to ask how utopias of printed matter can look like.
The display of fictive printed-matter on computer-screens is certainly not new. There have been folders or imitations of paper in writing programs that seem to be analogue since the beginning of desktop-publishing. Old analogue structures are upheld to ease the orientation within a graphical user interface. But the display of fictive printed-matter is herein extended by the expression of artistic examination.
Paper necessitates a completed work. The digital intercommunication replaces the completed and written corpus of information with a continuous process. This transformation is in full progress – will it come to an end after all? "Print Fiction" is about developing new figures and forms of expression for existing models within a process. The examination should be primarily artistic to create – independent from economic purposes – visions and reflexions of these new figures of fictive products. What conditions make reality shapeable? Which design elements are imaginable?
The form of the "Print Fiction" exhibits shall be understood in the widest sense: Poster, paper-spreads, 3D-sculptures or utterly different. The exhibition-space will be a 3D-environment, accessible via web browser. All visitors will be able to navigate within the exhibition in a first-person perspective similar to a computer-game. "Print Fiction" will take place end of May 2012 at printfiction.net
Mixed Reality
Online Exhibition
Bringing together utopias of digitally printed matter
Diploma thesis of Michael Alfred, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB), Leipzig
| ö | info@printfiction.net |
| technical support | Stefan Endreß Wolfgang Schoeffel Matthias Ewald |
| Arial Inktrapcut | Joel Evey |
Michael Alfred Seibert
Innere Laufer Gasse 35a
90403 Nürnberg
Germany