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Schedule
(Updated August 16, 2005)

Below is the current schedule for the conference, which may change as the conference takes shape. It has been posted here for planning purposes.

Saturday and Sunday, September 3-4

Delegates arrive in Berlin, get oriented to the city and visit museums and points of interest on their own. Use the transportation, exhibition and resources sections of this website to plan your use of this period. Also, download the pdf (below) with directions to the Druckwerkstatt, Kulturwerk of bbk berlins where the conference will begin on Monday September 5th.

Optional Pre-Conference Bicycle Tour: Experience Berlin as the locals do, on a bike! Berlin is a very flat, bike friendly city. Fat Tire Bike Tours located under the TV Tower at Alexanderplatz, offers bike tours of Berlin in English beginning at 11am daily (20 Euros) or four-hour bike rentals (7 Euros). The tour will give you an opportunity to understand many facets of Berlin in one trip. Their bikes are "deluxe beach cruisers" with cushy seats and fat tires. For more information, see their web site at: www.FatTireBikeToursBerlin.com

SUNDAY: 17:00-19:00 
Optional Pre-Conference Happy Hour: Join other conference delegates for a casual happy hour at a café on the north side of the historic Hackeschen Markt S-Bahn Station. This is a convenient central location after a day on Museum Island, visiting galleries or other activities in Berlin. Look for the IMPACT conference coasters at Rocco Cafe-Bar-Restaurant (+49-030-24-63-86-06).

Monday September 5

CLICK HERE to download a pdf of a map with directions or CLICK HERE to see the map (as a gif file) on the web.

MONDAY: 10:00-15:30                 
Conference registration and Open House at the Druckwerkstatt, Kulturwerk of bbk berlins, Mariannenplatz 2.

See a collaborative Demographics Project by 4 international artists; Matthew Egan (Canada), Mark Hosford (USA), Heather Muise (Canada) and Martin Noll (Germany) completed for the IMPACT 4 conference. This multi-authored collaborative print project was completed at Druckerwerkstatt Bethanien in Berlin during the week prior to the conference. Through this project they will use the various facilities in the workshop (lithography, intaglio, screenprint, relief and digital prints). The project will offer a tangible example of international exchange and "kontakt" between a group of international artists.  

MONDAY:11:00-14:00
Open House Events at other locations in Kreuzberg District
(While of of these locations are within walking distance, a van will make a continuous circuit departing from in front of Bethanien to/from Tabor Press (with stops at Druckstelle and 1x2 Seibdruck) and back, arriving every 10-15 minutes. 

Druckstelle, Manteuffelstrasse 103, phone: 40-53-95-10 (van service)
This small workshop run by Eva Pietzcker and Miriam Zegrer serves as venue for publication projects and a variety of educational workshops. During the open house, Eva Pietzcker and Haruka Furusaka will demonstrate "Japanese Woodblock Printmaking with Water-Based Inks"

1x2 Siebdruck, Zeughofstrasse 21, phone: 611-55-00 (van service)
For the past 14 years Martin Samuel has run this screenprint shop capable of large format (1x2 meter) prints. His work encompasses both art and design projects. He also offers some educational programs for children. Sharing his studio facilities is the painter Christian Rothman.

Tabor Press Berlin, Taborstrasse 22, phone: 611-6096 (van service)
One of Berlin’s premiere publishers specializing in stone lithography.

Berliner Handpresse, Prinzessinnenstrasse 20, phone: 614-26-05 (Building A, walk-up to level 5 or ring bell for elevator)
Wolfgang and Ingrid Jörg direct this letterpress shop for over forty years that is committed to maintaining the craft of book. They produce books for both adults and children, illustrated with original color linocut prints. See their web site at: www.berlinerhandpresse.de

NGBK Gallery, Oranienstrasse 25, phone: 616-5130 (opens at 12:00)
On view is “moving.. on..” (actions on borders and strategies to address racism), an interdisciplinary project on migration, activism and possible ways to deal with borders.  Organized by seven artists and activists, this exhibition includes art and social action projects addressing issues of borders, border crossings, shifting borders, visualization of and undermining borders. From March to June, prior to the exhibition a series of public lectures and discussions are taking place in Berlin addressing issues of art and politics. A small publication accompanies the exhibition. NGBK (Neue Gesellschaft für Bildene Kunst/New Society for Fine Art) was founded in 1969 during the climax of social upheaval in Berlin. The founders envisioned their institution as an alaternative to hierarchical art institutions with an emphasis on democratic curatorial processes and collaboration. The gallery is located behind a bookstore. For more information, see their web site at: www.ngbk.de

CLICK HERE for a guide to restaurants within a few blocks of Bethanien

MONDAY: 14:00-15:30
Special lectures and presentations at Druckwerkstatt, Kulturwerk of bbk berlins, Casino Hall, ground floor

Peter Höyng, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
"A Double Void: The Impact of the Holocaust in Berlin and Its Lack of KONTAKT with Poland"

Annette Seeler, Independent Curator, Berlin, Germany
"Käthe Kollwitz in Black and White"

Kyle Schlesinger, Cuneiform Press (www.cuneiformpress.com) Buffalo, New York, USA and
Caroline Koebel, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA
"Schablone Berlin: Stencil Graffiti in Berlin"

MONDAY: 15:30-16:00
Take the M29 Bus west from Heinrichplatz to Potsdammer Brücke (buses depart every five minutes).
At the Potsdammer Brück stop, proceed north past the New National Gallery to Kulturforum. Enter through the lower level doors to the Kunstbibliothek.

MONDAY: 16:00-18:00 (presentations start every 30 minutes)
Special viewing at Kunstbibliothek and Kupferstichkabinett, Kulturforum, Matthaikirchplatz 4.
Thirty minute presentations begin at 16:00, 16:30, 17:00 and 17:30 and have limited capacity to 25 people in each session venue. Hallway showcases also include additional displays.

Professor Evers, Director of the Kunstbibliothek will present "Duchamp, Fluxus and Ephemera."
On special display will be Marcel Duchamp's "Boite verte" or "Green Box" and various examples of Fluxus publications. (25 people maximum)

Dr. Andreas Schalhorn, Curator of Prints at Kupferstichkabinett
A preview of works in "'Wittgenstein in NewYork': City, Space and Architecture in Contemporary Works on Paper" an exhibition that opens September 30. Dr. Schalhorn will all us to preview prints by Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Estes, Ed Ruscha, Sarah Morris, Olaf Nicolai, Claes Oldenburg, Ueli Etter and other artists in the study room. (25 people maximum).

Alternate Activity: Visit the BauHaus Archives and Museum
On view until September 12: "Bring on the Colour! : The Wall-Painting Workshop at the Bauhaus"
Klingelhöferstraße 14, Telephone: 030 - 25 40 02 0
The archives are open Mondays until 17:00. Admission is 6 Euros. To get there continue on the M29 Bus three stops going west past the Potsdammer Brück stop to Köbisstrasse. The museum is immediately ahead on the left. http://www.bauhaus.de/

MONDAY: 18:00-18:30
Continue on the M29 Bus west from Potsdammer Brücke to Kurfürstendamm (buses depart every five minutes)
If you arrive at the Kåthe Kollwitz Museum early, plan to visit the bookstore at Literaturehaus Berlin and the Wintergarten Cafe next door.  

CLICK HERE to see a map of event locations in Charlottenburg-Berlin      

MONDAY: 18:30-20:30      
Special Reception at the Käthe Kollwitz Museum, Fasanenstrase 24, (Charlottenburg District).
“Der Krieg begleitet mich bis zum Ende" ("The War accompanies me to the end of my Life")
This exhibition marks the 60th anniversary of the death of Käthe Kollwitz in 1945. This wine reception will include an introduction by Dr. Gudrun Fritsch, Curator of the museum and a discussion lead by several international artists affiliated with the a special exchange portfolio honoring the life and work of Kåthe Kollwitz organized by Beth Grabowski. This project was funded through a grant from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Tuesday September 6

All sessions, demonstrations and exhibitions will take place at the Universität der Künste Berlin, Hardenbergstrasse 33 (located two blocks north-west of the Zoologischer Station). Accessable by S1, S2, S75, S9, and U2, U9 and various buses.

CLICK HERE to see a map of event locations in Charlottenburg-Berlin

TUESDAY: 8:00-16:00                       
Conference Registration Desk located in the entry hall of the Universität der Künste Berlin

TUESDAY: 8:30-16:00
Special Table Presentation near the Registration Desk at the Universität der Künste Berlin
Gerten Goldbeck of Hamburg, Germany to present the "Printmaking Network" electronic newsletter.

TUESDAY: 9:00-9:15                       
Conference Welcome in Room B158
Burkhard Held, Dekan of Fine Arts, Universität der Künste Berlin, Germany                                                
Andrzej Weilgoz, Vice-Director at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland
Roy Weatherston, Director, Program Division of the U.S. Embassy in Berlin                                    
Steven Hoskins, University of West England, Bristol, United Kingdom
Beauvais Lyons. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

TUESDAY: 9:15-10:15                       
Keynote Address #1 in Room B158
Ruth Weisberg, University of Southern California, USA
"Syntax of the Print: Revisited"

TUESDAY: 10:15-12:50                       
Selected Portfolio Presentations in the Universität der Künste Berlin Galleries

Carl Rowe Norwich School of Art and Design, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom
“Print Portfolios from the Norwich School of Art & Design: Currency, Talk, DIY and Love/Hate.” The boxes are 35cm X 25cm in size and hold on average fifteen prints. 

Marina Mangubi College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio, USA
"Music for the Bones” a portfolio of prints based on the story about recordings of Western music that were pressed on discarded X-rays, in Eastern Europe in the wake of WWII.

Christa Wolf InkShop.com, Ithaca, New York.
"Prints from www.inkshop.org"

TUESDAY: 10:30-13:00                       
Demonstrations in the workshops of Universität der Künste Berlin  

Screenprinting Workshop (B053)
Wim Habraken, Kurtface Studio and Gallery, Den Bosch, Netherlands
Demonstration: “Extreme Silkscreen Techniques in Art Printing”

Relief Printing Workshop (B052)
Dennis Olsen, President, Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, Italy
Demonstration: “Water-Based Monoprinting”

Lithography Workshop (B051)
Bill Hosterman, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan, USA
Demonstration: "Drypoint Lithography"

Intaglio Workshop (B050)
Henrik Bøegh, Art Guide / Forlaget Bøegh / Grafisk Eksperimentarium, Copenhagen, Denmark
Demonstration: “Non-Toxic Photo Intaglio Methods”

TUESDAY: 10:30-12:30
Panel Session #1 in Room B158
"Printmaking as an Enlightenment Aesthetic"

Paul Thirkell (Session Chair), University of West England, Bristol. United Kingdom,
"The Enlightened Path from Didero to Digital"

Cynthia Kukla Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, USA
“Perceiving an Icon”

Enrique H. Martínez Leal, University of Castilla La- Mancha, Cuenca, Spain
“The Poetics of Retrieval. Obtaining Impressions, Making Prints”

Carinna Parraman,University of West England, Bristol. United Kingdom
“(Re)-Invention, Revolution in Print”

Ruth Pelzer-Montada, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
"Printmaking’s ‘Kontaktfreudigkeit’ or the Discursivity of Print"

TUESDAY: 10:30-12:30
Panel Session #2 in Room A110
"History and Influences of the Japanese Print"

Rebecca Salter, Independent Artist, London, United Kingdom
"Japanese Woodblock Printing and the Art of Travel in Edo Period Japan"    

Eva Pietzcker, Independent Artist, Berlin, Germany (Session Chair)
April Vollmer, Independent Artist, New York, New York, USA  
Daniel Heyman, Independent Artist, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Dariusz Kaca, Academy of Fine Art, Lodz, Poland
Merijean Morrissey, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Michael Reed, Independent Artist, New Zealand
Nel Pak, Independent Artists, Utrecht, Netherlands
"Artists Discuss the Nagasawa Art Park Program"

TUESDAY: 12:30-13:30                       
Lunch available through Universität der Künste Berlin, Cafeteria (level 3)

CLICK HERE for a guide to restaurants within a few blocks of UdK

TUESDAY: 13:00-15:30                       
Selected Portfolio Presentations in the Universität der Künste Berlin Galleries

Eva Pietzker, Independent Artist, Berlin, Germany
April Volmer, Independent Artist, New York, New York, USA  
Daniel Heyman, Independent Artist, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Dariusz Kaca, Independent Artist, Poland
Merijean Morrissey, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Michael Reed, Independent Artist, New Zealand
Nel Pak, Independent Artists, Utrecht, Netherlands
"Prints by Artists who have participated in the Nagasawa Art Park Program"
This portfolio presentation will allow conference delegates to see work first-hand that was presented and discussed in the morning session.

Anna Chelminska, Independent Artist, Warsaw, Poland
"A Portfolio of Prints using Non-Toxic Intaglio Methods"
For this presentation, Chelminska will show her intaglio prints using Keith Howard's non-toxic methods.

Raymond Henshaw, Belfast Print Workshop, Belfast, Northern Ireland
"Prints from the Belfast Print Workshop"

TUESDAY: 13:30-16:00
Demonstrations in the workshops of Universität der Künste Berlin  
                       
Screenprinting Workshop (B053)
Wim Habraken, Kurtface Studio and Gallery, Den Bosch, Netherlands
Demonstration: “Edible Inks and Other Innovative Applications in Screenprinting”

Relief Printing Workshop (B052)
Carmon Colangelo, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia USA and
Dennis O'Neil, Hand Print Workshop International, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
Demonstration: "Printerly Combinations"

Lithography Workshop (B051)
Randy Hemminghaus, Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Demonstration: "Uses of Toner as a Drawing Material in Lithography"

Intaglio Workshop (B050)
Anju Chaudhuri, Atelier 8, Paris, France
Demonstration: "Viscosity of Oil in Color Etching"

TUESDAY: 13:30-15:30            
Panel Session #3 in Room B158 (200 capacity)
"Kontakt with the Book"

Helen Frederick, (Chair) George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia and Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Springs, Maryland, USA

Joanna Hoffman, Academy of Fine Arts, Poznañ, Poland
"The book - A Mute Object? Sound in Artists' Books"

Arunas Gelunas,Vilnius Academy of Fine Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
“Artists Book at the Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts”

Jana Harper, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
“Urban Books”   

TUESDAY: 13:30-15:30                       
Panel Session #4 in Room A110 (100 capacity)
"Cultural Kontakt Session #1"

Karen Oremus, (Session Chair) Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Daniel Dallmann, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, USA
Richard Hricko, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, USA
Kip Deeds, Princeton University, New Jersey and University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

David Lilburn and Joachim Fischer, University of Limerick, Ireland (tentative addition to session)
“Tales of Four Cities, Moscow – Warsaw - Berlin – Dublin”

TUESDAY: 16:00-16:15 
Special Address in Room B158 (200 capacity)
"Philagrafika: An International Printmaking Festival"
Teresa Jaynes, Philadelphia Print Collaborative 

TUESDAY: 16:15-17:15                       
Keynote Address #2 in Room B158 (200 capacity)
Thomas Kilpper, Independent Artist, Berlin, Germany
“Cutting, Inking and Printing: Historical Impressions”

TUESDAY: 17:15-20:00                       

Beer Garden and Exhibition Reception on the lawn adjacent to the Universität der Künste Berlin Galleries. Beer provided by Schultheiss Brewery.

TUESDAY: 19:00-19:30
Performance of "Lady Mikado."
This is an interdisciplinary project that started as a text by Ulrike Stoltz, which became the basis for an artists book and is also the background of a portfolio of typographical prints. At the same time, the text inspired a Polish video artist, Grzegorz Zgraja, to do a video, that was in turn the the starting point for a piece of improvised music (performing musicians: Ulrike Stoltz, Grzegorz Zgraja, Henryk Roemisch, Ulryk Zgraja). book, prints, video.

TUESDAY: Evening                       
Dinner on Your Own
For the ultimate Berlin experience we encourage you to go to one of the many open-air beer gardens in the Tiergarten. From the Zoologister Station take the S Bahn one stop (north) to Tiergarten where you can enter the park crossing the Strasse des 17 Juni towards the Neuer Sea area near the Spanish Embassy. You can also walk there directly from the Zoologister Station and head to the north side of the Berlin Zoo. Another option is to go to Quasimodo, which has a large shaded terrace and offers a full bar and a light menu. To get there go one black towards Zoologister Station, take a right on Fasanenstrasse. Quasimodi is located at 12a Kanstrasse (telephone: +49-030-312-8086). There are many excellent restaurants in the area, with Kanstrasse and Savignyplatz offering choices nearby.

Wednesday September 7

Conference delegates should check out of their hotel this morning to depart on the train to Poznan. We strongly encourage you to purchase your ticket when you arrive in Berlin on Saturday of Sunday. The train departs from the Ostbahnof Station at 12:42. The Ostbahnof Station is easily accessable by public transportation. The train takes 3 hours to travel to Poznan, and will arrive around 15:30.  Specific departure time may change before the conference. Special art events are planned for the train passage. Delegates should have their passports, but many national citizens do not need a visa to enter Poland as a tourist.  For more information, consult the Learn4Good.com web site: http://www.learn4good.com/travel/poland_visa.htm

CLICK HERE to see a map of event locations in Poznan

WEDNESDAY: 17:00-18:00                       
Conference Registration Desk located in the entry hall of the Zamek Center of Culture, Swiety Marcin 80-82

WEDNESDAY: 18:00-18:30                       
Welcome Comments in Zamek Cultural Center, Poznan, Poland
Beauvais Lyons, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Marek Raczak, Director of CK "Zamek" Center of Culture and Vice-Director Anna Hryniewiecka, Curator of CK “Zamek” Center of Culture, Poznan, Poland
Steven Hoskins, University of West England, Bristol, United Kingdom
Miroslaw Pawlowski, Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland
Ryszard Grobelny, The President of Poznan, Poland
Waldemar Dabrowski, The Polish Minister of Culture, Warszawa, Poland
Professor Wojciech Müller, Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland

WEDNESDAY: 18:30-18:45                       
Brief Comments on "Transgressions 2005"
Professor Witold Skulicz, Director of the Krakow International Print Triennial Society and
Teresa Soliman, Exhibition Curator from the Krakow International Print Triennial Society. (translated to English)

WEDNESDAY: 18:45-21:00                       
Public Reception for "Transgressions 2005"
Receptions will also be held for other exhibitions at Zamek and an open-air concert will also take place in the Zamek Cultural Center Courtyard.

WEDNESDAY: Evening                       
Dinner on Your Own
You are encouraged to take advantage of one of the many fine restaurants and bars in the Stary Rynek (Old Town) in the city center. Restaurant information will be at the conference registration desk.

Thursday September 8

THURSDAY: 8:00-16:00
Conference Registration Desk located in the entry hall of the Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu, Al. Marcinkowskiego 9.

THURSDAY: 8:30-16:00
Product Fair located at the Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu, Patio Hall

THURSDAY: 9:00-9:10                       
Welcome Comments in the Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu, Underground Hall
Professor Wojciech Suchocki, Director of the Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu

THURSDAY: 9:10-9:45                       
Keynote Address #3 at the Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu Underground Hall (300 capacity)
Professor Witold Skulicz, Director of the Krakow International Print Triennial Society.
"Printmaking in the Era of Chaos”

THURSDAY: 9:45-12:30           
Selected Portfolio showings in the Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu, Patio Hall

Kate Copeland, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Heather O'Hara, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
"International Student Print Exchange – Peer Introductions through Mail Art"
This exchange will provide participants with a glimpse into the lives of their distant peers. Advanced students from Poland, Germany, and the US were invited to create three different mail art pieces over the summer, each depicting an aspect of their lives. In the style of a postcard, the front of each print will be an image – the back will be a short text. Over the course of the exchange, participants will learn about each other’s interests, homes, and artwork.

Carinna Parraman University of West England, Bristol. United Kingdom
"Boxing Cleaver"
This project is a European student competition based on the investigation of one theme: the relationship of image, design and paper engineering. The paper engineering can range from a pop-up book or card to a printed three-dimensional box or carton. The intention is to enable the delegates to print copies of the designs and make the paper constructions. The invitation to participate was listed on the IMPACT 4 website.

Donna Moran Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, USA
“PrattPrintmaker’s: A Presentation of Two Recent Portfolios”
Moran will present two recent portfolios of prints produced by faculty and students at the Pratt Institute Printmaking Department. The most recent portfolio is titled Derelicts, Liars and Thieves. Both portfolios exhibit the wide and rich variety of printmaking that is occurring at Pratt Institute. Digital techniques have become a usual part of our lexicon, but there continues to be an explosion of traditional printmaking. These processes, particularly relief printmaking, allow artists to make immediate and direct images in reaction to the social, sexual and societal discourse in the USA. The images in these portfolios retain the printmaker’s traditional ability for pictorial teaching. They exhibit a deep understanding of the whole image - the technical and the content.

Max Skowider and Maja Wolna, Poznan, Poland
Portfolio Presentation: “Man and Woman”
For this table-top portfolio presentation Max Skorwider and Maja Wolna will presented selected works from their graduate thesis at the Academy of Fine Art in Poznan, Poland. Their thesis project addressed psychological differences between men and women.      

THURSDAY: 10:00-16:00           
Projects in the Studios of the Academy of Fine Arts, Building A-B

Woodcut Studio, Building A, Room 108
Jeff Rankin and Mickey Mtiya, School of Applied Art, Border Technikon, East London, South Africa
"Relief In Research?"
For this working studio session and print presentation, Mtiya will present and print blocks from his monochromatic woodcut series based on his exploration of teenage prostitution in an area close to the School of Applied Art. Also viewed will be “Fishmaids of Betrayal”, a recent work by Rankin that employs a series of repeated metaphorical images, in woodcut and drawing, to reflect critically on personal experience. In both cases the studio session will trace the narrative process which encouraged the making of the image and the role of printmaking in the outcome.

Intaglio Studio, Building A, Room 111
Dan Welden, Sag Harbor, New York, USA
"Solarplate: an alternative, safer approach to printmaking without acids, solvents or grounds"

Screenprinting Studio, Building A, Room 312
Dennis O'Neil, Hand Print Workshop International, Alexandria, Virginia, USA and
Carmon Colangelo, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
Demonstration: "Alternative Approaches in Screenprinting"

Offset Studio, Building B, ground floor
Impact-Kontakt Poster Project
See the academy's new offset workshop as a poster is produced about the conference.

THURSDAY: 10:00-12:00           
Panel Session #5 at the Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu Underground Hall (300 capacity)
"The History and Future of International Print Competitions"

Mark Pascale, (Session Chair) Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Jan Pamula, Academy of Fine Art, Krakow, Poland
"The Influence of International Print Competitions on Polish Graphics"

Endi Poskovic, Whittier College, Whittier, California. USA
“The Origins of the International Print Competition: The Ljubljana Experiment”

Breda Skrjanec, International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
"Thrust: 26th Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts" (working title)

Paul Coldwell University of the Arts, London, UK
"The Condition of the Print "

Christopher Sperandio, Kartoon Kings, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
"ARTSTAR"

THURSDAY: 10:00-12:00           
Panel Session #6 at the Academy of Fine Art, Solna Building, room 12 (80 capacity)
"Kultur Kontakt Session #2"

Teresa Cole, (Session Chair) Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
“Migrating Souls: The Effects of International Exchange on Artists”

Gesine Janzen, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA
"History, Memory, and Identity: Printmaking as a Connection Between Generations"

Stephen Lovett, Manukau School of Visual Arts, Auckland  New Zealand
"No Place Like Home"

Andreas Schönfeldt, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa
“Printmaking as Medium for Contact”

T. Lehtonen University of Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom
“Is this mine own countree?: Speculations on Cultural Positioning”

THURSDAY: 10:00-12:00           
Panel Session #7 in the Academy of Fine Arts, Room 101 (100 capacity)
"Posters & Prints"

John Phillips, (Session Chair) Londonprintstudio, London, United Kingdom
“Prostitution and Indulgence: Public and Private Sensibilities in the Graphic Arts”

G. Jula Dech, Institut für Kunst im Kontext, Berlin, Germany
"German Political Posters from the Women's Movement: 1970 to Present"

Lech Majewski, Academy of Fine Arts Warsaw
"Three Decades of Posters" (working title)

Eugeniusz Skorwider, Academy of Fine Art, Poznan
"The Poster in the Modern World"

Barbara Madsen, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
“Poetic Terrorism: Billboards Against Intolerance”

THURSDAY: 12:00-13:30           
Box Lunch available by pre-registration ticket only. Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu, Old Building Lobby     

THURSDAY: 12:00-15:30  
Gallery Arsenal, Stary Rynek 3
Wieslaw Smuzny, Nicolas Copernicus University, Torun, Poland
Workshop/Demonstration: "Body Printing for 21st Century Figuration"

THURSDAY: 12:30-13:15           
Walking Tour of the print exhibitions in the Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu
Presented by the exhibition curators Danuta Rosciszewska, Agnieszka Salamon, Michal Haake and Zdzislaw Szubert.

THURSDAY: 13:00-15:30           
Portfolio showings in the Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu, Patio Hall

Alessandra Angelini Accademia di Belle Arti, Venezia, Italy
"Dado a Punte"
Angelini is presenting a limited edition book, titled “ Dado a Punte” which was printed as a collaborative project with the Suisse poet Gilberto Isella. This book-object represents a conceptual interpretation of the poems. The cover of the book is designed using an embossed screen printed paper contained into a clear Perspex case as a part of its individual form. The printing techniques used concern blind embossing, dry point, burin engraving ,etching, aquatint, silk screen for golden leaf and bloch typography for the texts.

Minna Sora University of Lapland, Tampere Finland
"Spirit and Material"
The portfolio deals with emotions and tangible experiences. It also explores the ways to combine print and mixed media.

Paul Coldwell University of the Arts, London, UK
“Imagined Journeys”
Central to Coldwell's practice as an artist has been the notion of the representation of journey. Our knowledge of the world and indeed more recent histories is punctuated by the migration of peoples, from the forcibly displaced, to refuges from conflict and to the economic migrants. Journeys also imply a sense of origin, home and a destination. Through the use of a repertoire of everyday objects he constructs images that explore this sense of travel, balanced between the polarities of everyday events and world news. This portfolio presentation presentation explores this idea through series of works made over the last five years. These include prints made through a variety of processes, incorporating digital technology alongside the physical qualities of traditional practice.

Paul Thirkell University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom
"Original /Reproduction"
This portfolio presentation is comprised of ten collotype prints thematically exploring the dichotomy between ‘original’ and ‘reproduction’ exemplified by collotype’s history and practice, Curated and printed by Paul Thirkell, the artists include: Stanley Jones UK, Jan Pettersson Norway, Claudio Acuri Italy, Paul Coldwell UK, Akiko Takizawa UK/Japan. Although collotype has never been produced on the same industrial scale as printing techniques such as the ubiquitous offset lithography, it was consistently employed throughout the twentieth century as a specialized medium for printing the highest quality book illustrations and single sheet reproductions. Although its photographically accurate continuous tone printing characteristics and exceptional color qualities remain (even in the digital age) largely unparalleled, its economic viability was gradually eroded during the latter half of the twentieth century.

THURSDAY: 13:30-15:30            
Panel Session #8 at the Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu, Underground Hall (300 capacity)
"Student Kontakt: Education Session"

Jo Ganter, (Session Chair) Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
"Craft versus Concept"

Andrew Atkinson, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, USA
"Interstitial Languages: Photographers and Printmakers"

Andrew Folan, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland
"Printmaking - Fetish or Firmament"

Susan Goldman, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
"Transforming Contemporary Academic Curriculum through Professional Visiting Artist Programs"

Rahman Mohamed, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia
“Printmaking in Malaysian Universities”

Stephen Mumberson, Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom
“Down Cha Cha Cha Road: Then a Morning in a Mud hut in Tengenge (Experiences of British Council Print workshops in Zambia and Zimbabwe 1992)”

THURSDAY: 13:30-15:30            
Panel Session #9 at the Academy of Fine Arts, Solna Building, room 12 (80 capacity)
"Kulture Kontakt Session #3"

Carinna Parraman, (Session Chair) University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom
“The Collaborative Print Exchange as Visual Debate”

Paul Liam Harrison, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
"Cultural Exchange through Collaborative Practice"

Neil Morris, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool. United Kingdom
Pete Clarke, University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom
“Eight Days A Week: Liverpool/Cologne Cultural Exchange” 

Vicki Reynolds, St. Willunga, South Australia
“Water - The Australian Experience”

Kristina Zalite, Independent Artist, Bralorne, British Columbia, Canada
“Regional Mythology and Global War: Relief Printmaking in the Canadian and Alaskan Arctic”

THURSDAY: 13:30-15:30           
Panel Session #10 in the Academy of Fine Arts, Building A, Room 101 (100 capacity)
"The Past and Present of the Polish Print"

Grazyna Halasa, (Session Chair) Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu, Poznan, Poland
“Expressionist Influences of Polish Graphics”
 
Pawel Ignaczak, Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu, Poznan, Poland
"The Graphic Work of Jean Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine"

Jan Pamula, Academy of Fine Art, Krakow, Poland
"Cracow Printmaking"

Miroslaw Pawlowski, Academy of Fine Art, Poznan, Poland
"Young Polish Graphics"

THURSDAY: 16:00-18:30           
Reception at the Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu, Gallery of 16-18th Century Polish Art (directly above the Underground Hall). This is a new gallery in the museum, and is a special setting for this reception.

THURSDAY: 18:00-20:00
Receptions at Poznan Area Galleries. See map provided in conference packet.

Garbary 48 Gallery (Poznan Society of the Promotion of Art: PSPS), ul. Garbary 48
"Prints by Anna Sobol-Wejman and Stanislaw Wejman"

Gallery Arsenal, Stary Rynek 3
"Jacek Rybczyñski. Prints, Objects"
Wieslaw Smuzny "21st Century Figuration"

Ego Gallery, Wroclawska 19
Izabela Gustowska "Life is a Story"

THURSDAY: 19:00-21:00           
Stary Browar Galleries, Slodownia Street, top level of the Stary Browar (Old Brewery) Mall. Gallery located at the top of a new urban shopping mall. A ten-minute walk from Stary Rynek. See map provided in conference packet.

Reception for the "Polish National Biennial of Student Graphics" and "Faculty from ASP Poznan" curated by Mirek Pawlowski

THURSDAY: 21:00-22:00           
Polish Student Round Table Discussion, Piano Club (next to the Stary Browar Gallery)

THURSDAY: Evening                       
Dinner on Your Own

Friday September 9

Conference delegates who signed up for the Open Portfolio Session may leave their portfolios at the coat-check desk during the day at the Zamek Cultural Center. All portfolios should be clearly labeled with your name, address and hotel. Open portfolio participants will be responsible for taking their work at the conclusion of the session.

FRIDAY: 8:00-16:00
Conference Registration Desk located in the entry hall of the Poznan National Museum, Al. Marcinkowskiego 9.

FRIDAY: 8:30-16:00
Product Fair located at the Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu, Patio Hall

FRIDAY: 9:00-9:45                       
Keynote Address #5 at the Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu, Underground Hall (300 capacity)
Richard Noyce Independent Scholar, Powys, Wales, United Kingdom
“Beyond Printmaking: Printmaking from the Outside”

FRIDAY: 9:45-12:30           
Selected Portfolio showings in the Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu, Patio Hall

Enrique H. Martínez Leal University of Castilla La- Mancha, Cuenca, Spain
“The Entomography Series”
During the Fall of 2004 Leal completed a series of prints and hand made paper objects at Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper that involved transferring the incised surfaces of fallen tree limbs, produced by bark engraving beetles, onto different substrates. On the outset, the project was to deploy a broad (historical) spectrum of reproductive techniques that would present the animated inscription of insects as an autonomous creating agency. This portfolio presentation will exhibit work from this project.

Anita Jung, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
"Recent Printworks"
The applications of commercially-made print stencils, and collage elements denote a return to the craft materials I used while growing-up. In a broader sense these materials reference women’s involvement in historical and contemporary craft practices. Craft usually implies skill, but in this case it has led me to an accessible and rudimentary way of creating repeatable icons. These matrixes make no attempt to hide what they are or how a thing was made. Their technology is fundamental, immediate and direct. The materials I use are beautiful in their natural state. They are irreversibly intertwined and attached to my sense of the feminine, make-believe, memory and sentiment. They are rich with nostalgia and the cliché.

Endi Poskovic, Whittier College, Whittier, California, USA
“Multi-Plate Color Relief Prints”
The integration of relief printmaking within the context of my work is motivated by a need to create representation that uses print media not only as a process as means to an end but also a concept which best communicates the persuasive nature of my the work. Relief printmaking can then be read as an idiosyncratic language, and it is in this way that an archaic process of making images opens new and infinite possibilities. For this presentation I will display a set of recent large 37" x 54" and 40" x 72" color woodblock prints. In the initial design stage, preparatory drawings and photographs are altered using Photoshop and Illustrator software. Each computer design and color separation is subsequently transferred onto blocks; the blocks are hand-carved  and then hand-rubbed with a barren onto Kozo paper. There are four or five woodblocks for each image, a master block and several separate blocks for colors. The blocks are printed successively, color blocks first and the black block last. The deliberate addition/subtraction of color in each printing of the complete set of color blocks becomes a point of departure for the creation of new images.

Stephen Inggs, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, South Africa
"Working Proof Portfolio of Lithographs"
"Working Proof" is a portfolio of lithographs made to commemorate the 3rd Impact International Printmaking Conference held at the Michaelis School of Fine Art from 27-30 August 2003. It responds to the conference theme: the role of prints in contemporary art in a social, political and cultural context and specifically relates to notions of frontiers, conflict, repackaging, traces and exile. There have been major advances in the way artists have used print media in recent years. The evolution of print from its historical origins to the present day has been marked by shifts in function and aesthetic form from the dissemination of knowledge to the communication of ideas and concepts through visual and aesthetic means. The taxonomy of printmaking is a history replete with restrictions and definitions that were imposed on its artistic practice to the detriment of its acceptance as a primary art form. Prints are no longer driven by technical process alone and the traditional boundaries of printed art are not as clear as they were. Artists are continually redefining parameters. Large-scale prints challenge the hierarchy of paintings and printmaking has expanded to include printed forms ranging from artists¹ books to billboards, embracing and appropriating commercial techniques to accommodate aesthetic and conceptual concerns. The idea behind "Working Proof" has been to produce a portfolio of lithographs to explore how artists could use and adapt commercial print technology. The portfolio sets out to present a broad range of concepts with the intention of providing new ideas and approaches to contemporary printmaking. Most artists working in print will testify that collaboration, co-operation and partnerships are inherent characteristics of printmaking and this is also true of the relationships that have developed in the making of "Working Proof." Participating artists include Katherine Bull, Pippa Skotnes, Gavin Younge, Fritha Langerman, William Kentridge, Dominic Thorburn, Jane Alexander, Malcolm Payne, Roderick Sauls and Stephen Inggs. Particular thanks must go to Russell Jones and Morgan Poovan for the assistance they provided in the technical production of the lithographs.

FRIDAY: 10:00-12:00           
Panel Session #11 at the Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu Underground Hall (300 capacity)
"Body Kontakt"

Kathryn J. Reeves (Session Chair) Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA                         
“Body Contact: Sex, Reproduction and Prints”

April Katz, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
“Printmaking, Touch, and the Genetic Body”

Fritha Langerman, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Republic of South Africa
“Reproducing the Body: Assessing the Continued Value of Print Technology in Providing a Language for Biomedical Science”

Minna Sora, University of Lapland, Tampere Finland
"Art and Writing about It: Spirit, Body, Material and Text"

FRIDAY: 10:00-12:00           
Panel Session #12 at the Academy of Fine Arts, Solna Building, Room 12 (80 capacity)
"Command 'P' Digital Session"

Barbara Zeigler (Session Chair) University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
“Shifts in Print Practice and Critical Discourse: The Collaborative Potential of Digital Technologies in the Pedagogy of Interdisciplinary-Based Print Media”

Sue Gollifer, University of Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom
“Digital Creativity: Crossing Borders & Boundaries”

John Haworth , Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom
"Vibrant Transience: an Embodied Lens for Digital Printmaking"

Paul Thirkell, University of the West of England, Bristol. United Kingdom
"A Borderless State: Redefining Print in the Digital Age"

FRIDAY: 10:00-12:00           
Proposals for Hosting IMPACT 5 (2007) in the Academy of Fine Arts, Room 101, (100 capacity). 

FRIDAY: 12:00-13:30           
Box Lunch available by pre-registration ticket only. Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu, Old Building Lobby                 

FRIDAY: 12:30-13:15           
Walking Tour of Paintings in the Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu
Conducted by Wojciech Suchocki, Director of the Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu

FRIDAY: 13:30-15:00            
Summary Panel Discussion of the Conference at the Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu, Underground Hall (300 capacity)
Facilitated by Dominic Thorburn, Dominic Thorburn, Rhodes University Grahamstown, South Africa
with additional participation by former IMPACT conference coordinators.

FRIDAY: 15:30-18:00           
Open Portfolio Session
Forty tables will be set up at the Zamek Cultural Center. All delegates who pre-register for the conference are eligible to participate in this session.

FRIDAY: 16:00-18:00           
Exhibition Reception at ON Gallery (located behind Zamek Cultural Center)
Katherine Bull's "data capture: in the field" a series of prints and persformance

FRIDAY: 20:00-22:30           
Banquet Dinner at Restauracja “pod Prestekstem” + dziedziniec Zamek, ul. Swiety Marcin 72 (behind Zamek) .
Participation is limited to the first 200 delegates who pre-register for this event. $40 by pre-registration.

Saturday September 10

SATURDAY: 10:20                                   
Train Departs from Poznan Glowny Station to Berlin (specific departure time may change before the conference)

SATURDAY: 13:16                                   
Train Arrives at Berlin Ostbahnhof and then ten minutes later at the Zoologischer Garten Station

SATURDAY: Afternoon                       
On Your Own.
See museums, galleries, or ride a tour boat on the Spree. For Tour Boat information: CLICK HERE

SATURDAY: Night                       
Closing Party in Berlin featuring Die Kleine Kapelle at The Shake located on the River Spree near the Ostbahnhof Train Station. Admission is free with your conference badge. Band sponsored by Graphic Chemical and Ink Company, T.N. Lawrence and Sons Ltd., Polymetaal, and John Purcell Paper. Cash bar available. Party starts at 20:00.

Sunday September 11

Delegates Return Home