Guest seminar on copy art and artistic electrography Event

Electrographic Practices In the Archaeology of Art and New Media

The role of the electrographic practices of reproduction and printing of images in underground movements has become more valued and considered in contexts of art and new media. This includes work on the photocopy machine and the different artistic practices emerging from using it as an artistic medium.

The goal of this research and this talk is to bring to light certain underground artistic movements including Copy Art and also to connect this within a broader stream called artistic electrography. My aim is to analyse its place in the historical, political and technological context of its emergence. For this reason, the research suggests a new point of view that explains some phenomena, art paradigms or art forms in current art that were visible from the analogue and digital materiality of the photocopy artworks.

All this work is based, on the one hand, on the original artistic documentary, bibliographic materials, and artistic collections held by the International Museum of Electrography (MIDE) (Cuenca, Spain), Fondazione Vodoz Danese (Milan, Italy ); Museo Comunale d’Arte Moderna dell’Informazione e della Fotografia, Musinf (Senigallia, Italy); Museum für Fotokopie (Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany), Karin und Uwe Hollweg private museum (Bremen, Germany), Archiv-Black Kit archive by  Boris Nieslony (Cologne, Germany) the private collection by Jean-Claude Baudot (Paris, France) and others artists´ collections. And on the other hand, the primary and most important sources to obtain information is through interview with the main artists as a way to learn about these practices, their protagonists and the main geographical contacts.