Spread and Distribute Ferrofluid Materials as Expanded Printmaking

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10.2991/978-2-38476-238-5_20How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Expanded medium; Ferrofluid; Printmaking; Screen culture; Time-based art

Abstract

There is one distinct stage that can only be found in the working process of the lithography printing technique among other printmaking techniques, which is when an image that has been chemically treated on a stone surface is erased until it is clean but in the end, the image can reappear due to the principle of repulsion between water and oil. This snippet of the process sparked the author’s idea of creating a work of art whose visuals can appear and disappear on their own without leaving physical traces of printmaking materials. The pattern of appearance and disappearance has similarities with the phenomenon of human ability to perceive and interpret the information value of artistic traces of printmaking in the context of screen culture. By understanding this expansion of printmaking conventions, the author discovers a broader printmaking mechanism by utilizing a matrix created from ferrofluid material, a liquid material that can respond to magnetic forces so that its physical form can change. The unique properties of this material are able to transform conventional imprints into a visual printmaking work which is characterized as time-based art, where the image matrix can appear and disappear on its own, forming a repetitive pattern of unique black-and-white visual text influenced by the action-reaction of the magnetic field and ferrofluid.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Adi Sundoro
AU  - Willy Himawan
AU  - Dikdik Sayahdikumullah
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/04/29
TI  - Spread and Distribute Ferrofluid Materials as Expanded Printmaking
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of Art, Craft, Culture and Design (ICON-ARCCADE 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 220
EP  - 231
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-238-5_20
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-238-5_20
ID  - Sundoro2024
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