Cornwell, Graeme's The TECHNO-FETISH in printmaking
A conference paper from Australian Print Symposium: 1992
WORKING STATES
‘What is Working States?
Working States is an online publication program of Philagrafika designed to facilitate an international exchange of ideas and encourage new critical theory on the field of printmaking in what has become a growing cross discipline practice in contemporary art.’
Working States is sectioned into the following:
Part I – Critical Theory:
Theoretical considerations of the field of printmaking, including its effects on visual culture, its place within the artworld, its education, its value, etc.
Part II – Reviews:
Reviews of individual artists, exhibits, galleries, museums, and shows.
Part III – Primary Sources:
Speeches, Interviews, Statements, etc.
Part IV: Exhibit and Museum Catalogues and Notices:
Part V: Historical Scholarly Writings, Biographies, etc.:
Essays resulting from research within the field, retrospectives on the history of prints and printmaking, art histori cal texts, and artist biographies.
Part VI – Additional Resources:
Print Workshops, Studios, Websites, Bibliographies etc.: Other online print-related bibliographies
Part VII – Further Reading:
Thanks for this examplary summary of the history and achievements of the Elam Fine Arts Printing Research Unit. It should go on record how little support there was for it by Elam academics, with notable exceptions, and how difficult they made it for us to find a home - outside of Elam. It was one of Michael Dunn's biggest mistakes as head of Elam - a decision made on inexplicable grounds, because we were costing the school very little for huge practical and PR benefits. In retrospect, for I was gutted at the time, and could not figure out why EFAPRU was closed when we had a printer in the wing prepared to work to help make it entirely self-supporting, my conclusion is that closing the unit was in some way considered as a means to curtail my own influence and relatively independent power base in the school. Such are the mysteries of political intrigue in the University, so real innovation, like EFAPRU, and Mel Simpson's glass blowing initiative, gets stomped out for petty reasons - nothing to do with advancing art education except for uninspired department heads holding it back. - John B Turner, Beijing
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