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pa href=”http://www.thehumanprinter.org”The Human Printer/a, aka Louise Naunton Morgan, painstakingly prints unique one-off CMYK and BW images by handmdash;dot by dotmdash;to create a similar affect to pointillism, a technique originally developed by the Impressionist artist Georges Seurat in 1886./p

pAs explained on the site, The Human Printer assumes the role of the machine and is therefore controlled and restricted by the process of using CMYK halftone created on the computer. The site even goes as far as to list other Human Printer “models,” providing a short description of each one’s particular printing style and character traits./p

pLouise Naunton Morgan, the founder of The Human Printer, was inspired to reclaim the art of lost production and chose to use her craft as a way to highlight this issue:/p

blockquoteToday technology plays a huge role in everyday life…we have constructed these machines to aid our lives, making simple productions/tasks easier to accomplish. Our environment is now scattered with machine made artefacts, computer developed images and autonomous interactionsmdash;We are losing the essence of human production and craft to the machine, resulting in a soulless utilitarianism./blockquotea href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/events/the_human_printer_exhibition_at_kk_outlet_17481.asp”(more…)/a
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