Micro Macro Photo Litho Prints
- Submitting institution
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 245917-81785-1285
- Type
- L - Artefact
- Location
- Newcastle and Mexico City
- Open access status
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- Month of production
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- Year of production
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Micro Macro Photo Litho was the outcome of an exploratory collaboration between artist-researcher Erika Servin and biomedical engineer Dr Enrique Escobedo-Cousin. The work originated with a shared interest in how a single technology – photolithographic print process, is utilised in fine art printmaking and semi-conductor micro-fabrication. Through collaboration, Servin and Escobedo-Cousin developed knowledge and techniques across both fields to build on their prior expertise and extended their work in new ways.
Working together in the Fine Art studios and laboratories in Biomedical Science at Newcastle University, two series of prints were produced which experimented with scale and viewers’ experiences:
(1) 'Macro' prints: depicting medical electrodes designed and fabricated at Newcastle University as a part of a project studying human skeletal muscle. These prints were produced by Servin, using fine art lithographic print processes.
(2) ‘Micro’ prints made by Escobedo-Cousin on a microscopic scale using semiconductor fabrication techniques. These were made using the equipment and techniques depicted in the ’macro’ prints. To be viewed, these prints had to be mounted on glass slides and viewed using HD photography.
The research highlights innovations in nanotechnology developed at Newcastle University by making visible devices and processes which are normally invisible. By creating prints series (1), large-scale macro-prints for public exhibition, the work and its exhibition opened up new audiences for Escobedo-Cousin’s work.
Prints series (2) ‘micro’ prints were of original images by Servin, depicting Mexican citizens from minority groups. Here, the microscopic lithographic process was used to create nano-scale lithographic prints which demanded new modes of viewing. This, in turn, fostered a different relationship between the viewer, the prints and the subject matter, encouraging viewers to rethink colonial depictions of ethnic groups in Mexico.
The work was funded by the Newcastle Institute of Creative Arts Practice.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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