Digital & Graphic Art Research (DX5)

Head of research group

• Ana María Soler Baena

Researchers

Research Lines

Theoretical-conceptual line

• Conceptual and philosophical reflection on the multiple arts in the 21st century. Complexity and sustainability.
• Sociology of consumption of multiple works. Art, business, and communication.
• The concept of seriation and new technologies.
• The intangible matrix. The concept of authorship in the 21st century.
• Macrocosm and microcosm. Relational systems.
• Strategies and approaches towards conscious design.
• Expanded field painting. Transformations, apertures and ruptures in 21st-century pictorial practice.
• Building up identity: gender, clichés and archetypes.

Scientific-Technical Line

• New technologies applied to contemporary art.
• Sustainability systems applied to contemporary art.
• Non-toxic printmaking and matrix engraving systems. Piezoelectric printing technology and injection moulding. Laser technology applied to contemporary art graphics. From incised prints to light engraving. Electricity and image generation.
• Interactive graphics for a new digital print. Augmented reality.
• Interactions between painting, digital technology, and new media.

Artistic-Practical Line

• The space of contemporary graphic art. Theory and practice of digital graphic art, input-output.
• The imprint of the immaterial. Relationship between the visible and the invisible.
• The space of the Series: seriation and the print. Repetition and transformation. Transgressing practical and formal issues of publishing. The expanded edition.
• The space of the book: the artist's book as an art project to convey thought.
• Hyperbook. The mutant page. The sensitive page. Rhizomatic stories and images.
• The comic space: transdisciplinary studies of comics.
• The space of design: artwork production and research on the Border. Modernity and its margins: interrelations between art, design, and fashion.
• Conscious design for the 21st Century. Interventions in graphic and editorial design.
• Interdisciplinary studies through textiles.
• The installation space: the multiple that occupies space.
• The space of painting: ruptures from the conventions that sustain the category of painting.
• Exhibition spaces and models: the rise of curatorial discourse and its influence on 21st century artistic languages.
• The space of identity: non-normative identities.

Services

• Creation of contemporary art works: multiple art (expanded field painting, installation, graphic art), digital art, sculpture.
• Illustration projects: scientific, journalistic, and children's illustration.
• Creation of comics: storytelling applied to images.
• Provision of design services: graphic design, corporate design, editorial design, conscious design, and eco-design.
• Exhibitions curatorship.
• Visual creative consulting for interactive projects (video games, VR).

Keywords

Contemporary art, graphic art, graphic design, editorial design, multiple art, seriation, comics, print, matrix, imprints, digital art, illustration, expanded field graphics, artist's book, graphic techniques, printing, conscious design.

Scientific output

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