How can artists use new technologies alongside traditional print processes as part of a contemporary practice?

我的研究主题围绕着不同的生殖技术及其相互作用，更具体地着眼于如何利用版画制作来重新评估这一主题。在这个项目中，我的意图是挑战一种新技术取代旧技术的既定叙事，而是通过我自己的工作和对这个主题的书面思考的例子，提出一系列更复杂的情况，在这些情况下，通过互动和修改不断地产生混合形式。要做到这一点，需要重新审视工艺和数字技术等对立术语本身的固定性，或者至少考虑它们各自的优点。通过将新的数字技术与更传统的工艺相结合，我希望反思如何通过它们的结合、分层和并列来产生新的形式。这项建议的一个核心部分是基于加深我对技术过程的理解，以及如何利用这些过程来支持艺术创造力。我认为对这个项目很重要的技术领域包括丝网印刷、木刻印刷、数控布线、3D打印、数码打印和真空成型。这将包括扩展我对物理过程和可支配材料的知识，但也要发展我对CAD和3D建模软件的流利程度。除了这些以物质为基础的实验方法之外，我还有兴趣阐明这些过程是如何在围绕技术及其在社会中的作用的更广泛的讨论中定位的。构成我们对这一主题的思考的背景是当代围绕机器取代人类劳动的焦虑，以及围绕不同类型生产的生态影响的持续的伦理辩论。因此，从艺术史和设计理论到社会学和计算机科学的历史学，可以说有几个批判性的论述可以为这个话题提供信息。我目前设想对我试图从概念上构建这个主题的尝试产生直接影响的批判性思想家包括格伦·亚当森、沃尔特·本杰明、玛丽·希克斯、蒂姆·英戈尔德、埃丝特·莱斯利、赛迪·普朗特和理查德·森内特。在这些来源之间移动，我的意图是追踪复制副本的等级地位的关键变化，以及到目前为止熟练工人在生产它中所起的作用。以前，从科幻小说中提取的例子提供了另一个重要的提示，从那里思考技术及其影响的问题，构成了一个想象的空间，在这个空间中，一系列不合时宜的元素可以被聚集在一起，形成一个整体形式。这是我将继续利用的一种影响，尤其是因为它提供了一种方法来覆盖性别、生态和自动化问题，我认为这些问题与这个主题密切相关。为此，我将提到未来的概念，因为它们被玛格丽特·阿特伍德、威廉·吉布森、帕梅拉·佐林和乌苏拉·勒·奎因等作家推测性地对待。

My research topic centres around different reproductive technologies and their interactions, looking more specifically at how print-making can be employed to reappraise this subject. It is my intention within this project to challenge an established narrative in which newer technologies displace older ones, and to instead propose, through both the example of my own work and written reflection on the subject, a more complex series of circumstances in which hybrid forms are continually produced through interaction and amendments. To do so the fixity of opposing terms such as craft and digital technology themselves need re-examined, or least considered in relation to their respective merits. By combining new digital techniques alongside more traditional processes, I wish to reflect on the ways in which new forms can be produced from their combination, layering and juxtaposition. A central part of this proposal is based around deepening my understanding of technical processes, and the ways in which these can be harnessed to support artistic creativity. Technical areas that I have identified as being of importance to this project include screen-printing, woodblock-printing, CNC routing, 3D Printing, digital printing and vacuum forming. This would involve the expansion of my knowledge relating to physical processes and the materials at my disposal, but also developing my fluency with CAD and 3D modelling software. Looking beyond such materially-based methods of experimentation, I am also interested in articulating how these processes are located within broader discussions around technology and its role within society. Forming a contextual backdrop to our own considerations of this subject are contemporary anxieties around machines replacing human labour, as well as ongoing, ethical debates around the ecological impact of different types of production. As a result, there are several critical discourses which could be said to inform the topic, ranging from art history and design theory, to sociology and the historiography of computer science. Critical thinkers that I currently envisage having a direct impact on my attempts to conceptually frame the topic include Glenn Adamson, Walter Benjamin, Marie Hicks, Tim Ingold, Esther Leslie, Sadie Plant and Richard Sennet. Moving between these sources my intention would be to trace crucial changes to the hierarchical position of the reproduced copy, and the role skilled labour has up until this point played in producing it.Previously, examples drawn from science fiction have provided another important prompt from which to consider the question of technology and its effects, constituting an imaginary space within which a series of anachronistic elements can be brought together as a holistic form. This is an influence that I would continue to draw upon, not least because it offers a method to overlay issues of gender, ecology and automation, which I feel are intimately linked to the topic. To do so, I will refer to notions of futurity as they are speculatively treated by such authors as Margaret Atwood, William Gibson, Pamela Zoline and Ursula le Guin.