Printonline: Digital Print Media & The World Wide Web

The World Wide Web has catalysed immense change for artists as it opens up new ways to engage in remote studio practice. Traditional printmaking is now also challenged exponentially by more affordable techniques and digitally enhanced machine driven processes. In response to this development, as the first official online student at the School of Art, Bentley Campus of Curtin University in Western Australia, Alexander Hayes has instigated a collaborative project, ‘Printonline’ engaging established professional artists in a critique of this emergent creative landscape. Contributors to this project have been invited to creatively ‘re-generate’ artworks using digital scanners, photography and multimedia, re-presented as ‘derivative ‘unique works in an online and concurrent physical exhibition.