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Will take place at:
Bristol City Council House,
College Green,
Bristol,
BS1 5TR (see the IMPACT maps for a visual reference.)
Registration will take place between 2pm and 5pm on Wednesday 16th September.
On Registration you will be provided with all the information you require during the conference in a delegate pack, you will collect any pre booked lunches or banquet tickets.
Any speakers will need to take this opportunity to meet with their chair, and for the chair to check that the collated presentations run on the computer and projector.
If you cannot make it on Wednesday to register we will be able to register late comers on Thursday morning, but please be aware that registration is scheduled for Wednesday because we will have a lot of people to deal with, so please help us by coming on Wednesday if you can, as time and space for later registrants is limited on Thursday morning.
Please note- late registration will take place in the Cathedral next to the Council House (where coffee will be served) between 9.00 and 9.50 am on Thursday morning. If you arrive after this time and wish to register, you will have to do so at the Cathedral, and will not be admitted to events until you have registered.
September 16th -19th 2009 :
IMPACT Print Conference, Bristol, UK
Welcome to IMPACT 6, hosted by the Centre for Fine Print Research, University of the West of England, Bristol.
IMPACT is open to Artists Printmakers, Print Historians, Students, Educators, Curators, Collectors, Digital Artists, Print Studios, Book Artists, Conservators, Print Technicians and Print Industry.
Hosting the sixth IMPACT conference will be both a privilege and a pleasure, having now been held in five countries across two continents. Following its past success, we welcome the return of IMPACT to Bristol, marking 10 years since the first conference was hosted here in 1999. What began as a ‘one off’ event has become a bi-annual feature in the printmaking calendar, bringing together hundreds of delegates from around the world....
Over the last ten years the landscape for the discipline of Printmaking has changed. Digital printing technologies that are now part of mainstream printmaking were in their infancy when IMPACT began. The advent of global communication has enabled much greater international collaboration and for a wider community of Printmakers across the world to be connected.
Printmaking, both in its message and its production, has always been primarily a democratic and collaborative process. These factors have allowed printmaking to quietly gain a more pivotal role in mainstream contemporary art practice, in an age where printing is accessible to all.
Therefore IMPACT 6 will celebrate the international diversity of the discipline, from its roots in industrial communication through traditional, fine art based processes, to the current cutting edge technology and theoretical debates. We welcome and encourage participation from the widest aspects of our community, from print studios, print curators, artists, academics and industry. We particularly welcome student involvement as we recognise them as next generation of printmakers, and the future of IMPACT.
The conference will be held at the Bristol Council House and School of Creative Arts, University of the West of England. There will also be a number of exhibitions at venues across Bristol. The return of IMPACT to Bristol coincides with the recent opening of new studios for both the Faculty at UWE and the Centre for Fine Print Research, where current research within print extends from colour science and wide format digital printing, to rapid prototyped 3D printing, laser cutting and the application of print to practices such as artists’ books, ceramics and enamel on metal.
In 2011 the next conference will be hosted by Monash University, Melbourne Australia, adding another continent and country to the IMPACT world map. The conference has been held in Bristol (1999) Finland (2001), South Africa (2003), Germany and Poland (2005) and most recently Estonia (2007).
We welcome your involvement and look forward to seeing you in Bristol in September.
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