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

我的研究主题围绕不同的生殖技术及其相互作用，更具体地看如何版画可以用来重新评估这个问题。在这个项目中，我的意图是挑战一种既定的叙述，即新技术取代旧技术，而是通过我自己的工作和对这个主题的书面反思的例子提出一系列更复杂的情况，在这种情况下，混合形式通过相互作用和修改不断产生。要做到这一点，需要重新审视诸如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，我希望反思如何从它们的组合，分层和并列中产生新的形式。这个提议的核心部分是基于加深我对技术过程的理解，以及利用这些技术来支持艺术创造力的方式。我认为对这个项目很重要的技术领域包括丝网印刷、木版印刷、CNC布线、3D打印、数字印刷和真空成型。这将涉及到我的物理过程和材料在我的处置知识的扩展，但也发展我的CAD和3D建模软件的流畅性。除了这些基于材料的实验方法之外，我还对阐明这些过程如何定位于围绕技术及其在社会中的作用的更广泛的讨论中感兴趣。我们对这一主题的思考形成了一个背景，即当代对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伦理辩论。因此，有几个关键的话语，可以说是通知的主题，从艺术史和设计理论，社会学和计算机科学的史学。目前，我认为对我试图从概念上构建这一主题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、萨迪·普兰特和理查德·森内特。在这些来源之间移动，我的意图是追踪复制品的等级位置的关键变化，以及熟练劳动力在生产它方面所起的作用。以前，从科幻小说中提取的例子提供了另一个重要的提示，从中考虑技术及其影响的问题，构成了一个想象的空间，在这个空间里，一系列与时代不符的元素可以作为一个整体形式聚集在一起。这是我将继续利用的一种影响力，尤其是因为它提供了一种覆盖性别、生态和自动化问题的方法，我觉得这些问题与这个主题密切相关。为此，我将参考玛格丽特·阿特伍德、威廉·吉布森、帕梅拉·佐林和乌苏拉·勒吉因等作家对未来性概念的推测。

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.