Art, Creativity and Alternative Techniques
Vedos is a Finnish word for Print. Printmakers as well as photographers use it to mean the finished print worked on paper, but it can also refer to a draft, or a proof print, especially when the word is used by printing technology and press specialists.
That’s what it’s all about in the Vedos Project - making drafts, proofs and final prints. We are studying and practicing alternative printing processes in photography and printmaking - methods that are mostly historical, some of them almost forgotten, demanding handicraft and printmaking skills.
Practicing these techniques requires understanding the basics of both printmaking and photography, the worker should be familiar with the common concepts of graphic arts and sensitometry of photography. These processes are not readily applicable to standard practice in working life because they aim at uniqueness and singularity, which belong to an artist’s means of expression. Meanwhile, the modern photography techniques reach for effortless and automated control of processes, whereupon the outcome will easily even out and become too standardized. One of the purposes of our exploration is to embolden art students, professional artists and photographers to familiarize themselves with these techniques.
We hope that the know-how gathered by the project will offer opportunities for contentual development in art education and practising the artist’s profession, so that historically valuable information and methods will be brought to the hands of artists and art students.
RESEARCH PARTNERS
Lotus View Camera, Austria
Silverprint Ltd, England
Association of Estonian Printmakers, Estonia
Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia
Kumu Art Museum, Estonia
Tallinn Print Triennial, Estonia
Marleen van Engelen, Netherlands
Alternative Photography, Sweden
Kleinprint, USA
Photoarts Santa Fe, USA
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Vedos' website