On 25/04/13 Rob Myers <[email protected]> wrote: >Woodcut is an old analogue printmaking technology, in Europe it dates >back to the 1400s. A picture or design is carved into a flat block of >wood which is then inked and pressed onto a sheet of paper to produce >the finished image. At the turn of the 20th Century, woodcut was >appropriated by the Expressionists as an authentically direct and >traditional medium in which to experiment. > >Bitmaps are way of representing images digitally as a grids of >discrete values, dating back to the 1960s. Over time, the range of >colours and the amount of detail that it is possible to display in a >bitmap has grown from chunky black and white mosaics to hyperreal >multi-million colour multi-million pixel images. > >In popular culture the upcoming generation will in part define itself >culturally by valorizing the dross of its parents' era. This is a >process similar to pastoral or to cultural appropriation in high art. >The 80s were big in the 2000s, the 60s were big in the 80s, and the >40s were big in the 60s. > >Part of that process currently is the use of lo-bit aesthetics, 8-bit >and 16-bit image and sound aesthetics used to create contemporary art. >To those of us who spent a lot of time, money and effort climbing the >bit density well for digital art, this can appear a naive exercise in >nostalgia for the moment before one was born. Disney's use of lo-bit >aesthetics in its film Wreck-It-Ralph might appear to confirm this. > >But stripped of its status signifying function and its need to suffice >for practical requirements, lo-bit aesthetics join analogue >photography and mechanical writing instruments as historical tools >that are now appreciated for their contingent and historically >entangled aesthetic properties rather than their efficiency or >novelty. The blur or jaggedness, the wonkiness or blotching that once >frustrated the signification of meaning now enables it. > >Like using woodcut in the age of offset lithography.
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