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Proposals for the IMPACT 4 Printmaking Conference

Dear IMPACT 4 Conference Delegates:

Below is a listing of proposals received for the IMPACT 4 conference. To date we have received over 80 proposals from almost 20 countries. These have been posted for the benefit of the conference planning committee as well as all potential conference participants.  Links are provided to html files of each proposal.

Those who have made proposals are encouraged to review their materials submitted. While up to two (72 dpi) jpeg files may be included with each proposal, html links to web sites are encouraged. Please send corrections to me so they can be posted and updated if needed.

Final decisions regarding the exhibitions, papers and panels will be made by early April. All exchange portfolio proposals are approved, and some have room for additional participants. Contact the portfolio coordinator if your are interested.

The proposal listing below has been divided into the following sections:

1. EXCHANGE PORTFOLIOS
2. PORTFOLIOS/EXHIBITIONS/PERFORMANCES
3. PAPERS
4. PANELS
5. POTENTIAL PANELISTS
6. DEMONSTRATIONS
7. INVITED PRESENTERS


Thank you to everyone who has submitted a proposal for the conference.


Beauvais Lyons
IMPACT 4 Conference Coordinator
b
lyons@utk.edu

UPDATED: 17 March 2005
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EXCHANGE PORTFOLIOS:
All of these portfolios have been approved. Where indicated conference delegates may contact the portfolio coordinator about participating in these projects. Click on the portfolio coordinator's name to learn more.

Sarah Bodman
University of West England, Bristol, United Kingdom
Sarah.Bodman@uwe.ac.uk
Portfolio/Exhibition: “Bookmarks III: Infiltrating Kontakt, 2005”
(INQUIRE ABOUT PARTICIPATING)

Katarzyna Cepek and Emily Wilson
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
kcepek@yahoo.com
emilwilson@yahoo.com
Portfolio Proposal: “On the Edge” International Portfolio Exchange

Kate Copeland and Heather O'Hara
Rhode Island School of Art and Design, Providence, Rhode Island USA and
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY USA
kcopelan@risd.edu
plungerpress@hotmail.com
Portfolio Proposal: "International Student Print Exchange – Peer Introductions through Mail Art"
(INQUIRE ABOUT PARTICIPATING)

Ruthann Godollei
Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
godollei@macalester.edu
Exchange Portfolio: "We're Not From Here: Emigrés, Aliens and Utopians"
(INQUIRE ABOUT PARTICIPATING)

Beth Grabowski
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
segrabow@email.unc.edu
Exchange Portfolio: “The Käthe Kollwitz Tribute Portfolio”

John Hitchcock
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
jhitchcock@education.wisc.edu
Keith Christensen
St. Cloud State University, Minnesota, USA
kc@stcloudstate.edu
Exchange Portfolio: “Cultural Transport/Moving Targets” to take place on train to Poznan
(INQUIRE ABOUT PARTICIPATING)

Patricia Olynyk

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
polynyk@umich.edu
Portfolio” Hand to Hand” an international portfolio to be presented at the National Museum of Poznan
Funded through the Trust for Mutual Understanding

Mary Robinson
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
robin332@gwm.sc.edu
Exchange Portfolio: "Emission" (20 participants)

PROPOSALS FOR PORTFOLIOS, EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES:
These have been grouped together. In some cases portfolios can be presented as table displays, brought by the conference delegates.  In other cases works can be sent in advance to the conference venues.  Also included are several performance projects.

Alessandra Angelini
Accademia di Belle Arti, Venezia, Bereguardo (Pavia), Italia
angelinialessandra@libero.it
Book Presentation: " Dado a Punte"

Marilyn Harris Bautista
Houston, Texas, USA
bautista@bcm.tmc.edu
Portfolio/Exhibition: “Flying Carpet Women United in Work, A Border Crossing Art Project”

Katherine Bull
Cape Town, South Africa
kgb@sun.ac.za   
Exhibition and/or Performance: “Data Capture in the Field”

Anju Chaudhuri
Paris, France
chaudhuri@caramail.com
Exhibition:  (No Title) A series of prints by Chaudhuri (etchings, monotypes etc) on different materials like paper, pulp, natural woods, cloth (silk or fine khadi etc) canvas.

Anna Chelmiñska
Warsaw, Poland
Anna.Chelminska@rth.coi.waw.pl
Portfolio or Exhibition: Portfolio of Prints Using Non-Toxic Intaglio

David Ferry
Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton UK.
D.Ferry@soton.ac.uk
Exhibition: "Faces from History"

Raymond Henshaw
Belfast Print Workshop, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
rhenshaw@eircom.net
Exhibition Proposal: (working title) "Postcards from the Edge: A Selected Exhibition from Artists in Ireland" (Adrian O”Connell, Mick Cullen, Diarmuid Delarghy, Raymond Henshaw, Leanne Mullen, Victor Sloan, Anushiya Sundaralingham)

Heather Hoover
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA
hhoover@email.uncc.edu
Exhibition and Public Art Project: “Pedestrian Pathways in Kontakt”   -or-   “Patterns of Kontakt Movement”

Mirta Kupferminc
Buenos Aires, Argentina
mirta@mirtakupferminc.net
Exhibition: “Exiles” (large etchings and video animation)

Enrique H. Martínez Leal
University of Castilla La- Mancha, Cuenca, Spain
Enriquehildebrando.martinez@uclm.es
henryloyal@hotmail.com
Exhibition Proposal: “The Entomography Series”

Marina Mangubi
College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio, USA
mmangubi@wooster.edu
Exhibition or Paper: “Music on the Bones”

Hugh Merrill
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
hughmerr@hotmail.com
Student Project: Community Arts Action in Collaboration with Students in Poznan, Poland
Funded through the Trust for Mutual Understanding

Elizabeth Mills
East London, South Africa
Tony.Mills@shands.co.za
Portfolio Presentation Proposal: "Mountain of the Gods: The Tsodilo Hills"

Carinna Parraman
University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
Carinna.Parraman@uwe.ac.uk
Exhibition: “Boxing Cleaver”

Vicki Reynolds
Willunga, South Australia
seavicreyn@ozemail.com.au
Exhibition: “Gigalitres"


Carl Rowe

Norwich School of Art and Design, Norwich, Norfolk, UK
carl.rowe@ntlworld.com
Exhibition: four portfolios (Currency, Talk, DIY and Love/Hate)

Savage
Bristol School of Art, Media & Design, UWE, Bristol, UK
Andrew.Savage@uwe.ac.uk
Performance Proposal: “For Rites of Exchange” to take place on train to Poznan

Wieslaw Smuzny
Nicolas Copernicus University, Torun, Poland
wiesny@o2.pl
Proposals for Exhibition, Demonstration, Panel related to his work with "21st Century Figuration" produced in transparent body print technique.


Ulrike Stoltz

Offenbach am Main, Germany
u.stoltz@boatbook.de
Exhibition and Performance: “Lady Mikado” (book, prints, video and performance)

Beverly Samler and Lisa Van Wyk
Buffalo City College, East London, South Africa
kerrylyn@bccollege.co.za
Exhibition: “Proud Survivors: Through Adversity – The Legacy of African Woman”

Paul Thirkell
University of the West of England, Bristol. UK
Paul.Thirkell@uwe.ac.uk
Exhibition: “Original /Reproduction”(an exhibition of 10 collotype prints by different artists thematically exploring the dichotomy between ‘original’ and ‘reproduction’)

April Volmer, Eva Pietzker and others
New York, NY USA
april@aprilvollmer.com
Participating artists: Jens Bohr of Denmark, Daniel Heyman of the US, Dariusz Kaca of Poland, Merijean Morrissey of Canada, Eva Pietzker of Germany, and Michael Reed of New Zealand and April Vollmer of the US.
Portfolio: “Japanese Water-Based Woodblock Prints by Artists from the Nagasawa Art Park Program”

PROPOSALS FOR PAPERS:
These papers address specific topics.  In some cases these may be presented on their own, or may be combined with panel sessions. Some of these may form keynote addresses at the discretion of the conference planners.

Iwona Abrams
Royal College of Art, London, UK
iwona_abrams@yahoo.com
Paper: “Drawn Prints and Printed Drawings”

Andrew Atkinson
Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, USA
mail@andrewatkinson.net
Paper: "Interstitial Languages: Photographers and Printmakers" (For a Students/Education Panel)

Szymon Bojko
Poznan, Poland
grazyna.halasa@inetia.pl (c/o Grazyna Halasa)
Paper: on the Exhibition “Polish Poster – Individualities of Three Generations”

Paul Coldwell
University of the Arts, London, UK
coldwell.hodes@blueyonder.co.uk
Paper: “Imagined Journeys”

Jan Davis
Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia
jdavis@scu.edu.au
Paper Proposal: “Europeans Transported: Landscape and Belonging in Australia”

G. Jula Dech
Institut für Kunst im Kontext
jdech@udk-berlin.de
Paper Proposal: "German Political Posters from the Women's Movement: 1970 to Present"

Andrew Folan
National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland
andrewfolan@eircom.net
Paper: "Printmaking - Fetish or Firmament" (education paper working title)

Helen Frederick and Susan Goldman
Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Springs, Maryland USA
George Mason University, Fairfax. Virginia USA
hfrederick@pyramid-atlantic.org

goldmanprint@hotmail.com
Paper: "From Media Literacy to Visual Literacy" (working title)

Jo Ganter
Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland
j.ganter@eca.ac.uk
Paper: “Craft versus Concept”

Arunas Gelinas
Vilnius Academy of Fine Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
arunas.gelunas@vda.lt
Paper: “Artists Book at the Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts”

Gerten Goldbeck
Netzwerk Druckgrafik, Hamburg, Germany
GertenGoldbeck@gmx.de
Paper: "Building a Printmaking Network in Europe on the Web"

Grazyna Halasa
Curator of Prints
Poznan National Museum, Poznan, Poland
grazyna.halasa@inetia.pl
Paper: (working title) “Expressionist Influences of Polish Graphics”

Jana Harper       
Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA          
jharper@art.wustl.edu        
Paper Proposal: “Urban Books”

Paul Liam Harrison
Visual Research Centre, University of Dundee, UK
p.l.Harrison@dundee.ac.uk
Paper: (untitled) issues of culture and exchange through collaborative practice.

John Haworth
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Haworthjt@yahoo.com
Paper: Vibrant Transience: an embodied lens for digital printmaking.

Ted Howorth and William Pura
Winnipeg, MB., Canada
thowrth@cc.umanitoba.ca
Paper: “Border Crossings: Canadian Prairie Regionalism in Printmaking”

Peter Höyng
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
hoeyng@utk.edu
Paper: "Berlin and Poznan in Context" (working title)

Pawel Ignaczak
National Museum of Poznan, Poland
pawelignaczak@o2.pl
Paper: “Jean-Pierre Norblin - Art of Contact of Cultures”
(This proposal is being sent again. Data was flawed in original post)

Gesine Janzen
Montana State University, Bozemen, MT, USA
gjanzen@montana.edu
Paper: "History, Memory, and Identity: Printmaking as a Connection Between Generations"

Loit Joekalda
Association of Estonian Printmakers, Tallinn, Estonia.
loitj@online.ee
Proposal to host Impact-5 in Tallinn, Estonia in 2007 (to be presented on Friday September 9, 10:00)

April Katz
Iowa State University, Ames, IA USA                                                                                              
akatz@iastate.edu
Paper: “Printmaking, Touch, and the Genetic Body”

Richard John Kilpert
Johannesburg; South Africa
kilpert@yahoo.com
Paper: "Printmaking and the Multiliteracy Approach to Secondary School Syllabi"

Cynthia Kukla
Illinois State University, Normal, IL USA
cmkukla@ilstu.edu
Paper: “Postmodernism and Antique Technologies” (working title) for the session on Printmaking and the Enlightenment Aesthetic

Fritha Langerman
University of Cape Town, South Africa.
flangerm@hiddingh.uct.ac.za
Paper: “Reproducing the body:  assessing the continued value of print technology in providing a language for biomedical science”

David Lilburn and Joachim Fischer
University of Limerick, Ireland
david.lilburn@ul.ie
Paper: “Tales of Four Cities, Moscow – Warsaw - Berlin – Dublin”

T. Lehtonen
University of Brighton, UK
T.Lehtonen@brighton.ac.uk
Paper: “Is this mine own countree?: Speculations on Cultural Positioning”

Stephen Lovett   
Auckland, New Zealand
steve.lovett@manukau.ac.nz
Paper:  “No Place Like Home”

Josephine Mc Cormick
Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education, Belfast, Ireland
jmcprints@hotmail.com
Paper:  “Contested Space – Printmaking in Northern Ireland”

Rahman Mohamed
Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia.
manhaji2@yahoo.com
Paper: “Printmaking in Malaysian Universities”

Neil Morris
John Moores University, Liverpool. UK
N.Morris@livjm.ac.uk
Paper #1: “Eight Days A Week: Liverpool/Cologne Cultural Exchange” 
Paper #2: “Graphic Authorship – Artists in Print”

Stephen Mumberson
Middlesex University, London, UK
S.Mumberson@mdx.ac.uk
Paper:  “Down Cha Cha Cha Road then a morning in a mud hut in Tengenge (Experiences of British Council Print work shops in Zambia and Zimbabwe)”

Richard Noyce
Powys, Wales, UK
richard.noyce@virgin.net
Paper: “Beyond Printmaking: Printmaking from the Outside”

Jan Pamula
Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow, Poland
zepamula@cyf-kr.edu.pl
Paper: "Cracow Printmaking"

Carinna Parraman
University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
Carinna.Parraman@uwe.ac.uk
Paper #1: “The Collaborative Print Exchange as Visual Debate”
Paper #2: “(Re)-Invention, Revolution in Print”

Miroslaw Pawlowski
Academy of Fine Art, Poznan, Poland
m-pawlowski@tlen.pl
Paper: "Young Polish Graphics"
Related to the exhibition "Biennial of Student Graphics" at Stary Browar

Ruth Pelzer-Montada
Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland
r.pelzer@eca.ac.uk
Paper: “Printmaking’s ‘Kontaktfreudigkeit’ or the Discursivity of Print”

John Phillips
London Print Studio, London, UK
john@londonprintstudio.org.uk
Paper: “The Printstudio, the Boiled Toad and the Educational Environment of the Future”

Kerry-Lyn Honey (nee Potgieter)
Buffalo City Public FET College, East London, South Africa
kerrylyn@bccollege.co.za
Paper: “The Collaborative Shift”

Kathryn J. Reeves
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA                                                  
kreeves@purdue.edu
Paper: “Body Contact: Sex, Reproduction and Prints”

Vicki Reynolds
Willunga, South Australia
seavicreyn@ozemail.com.au
Paper: “Water-The Australian Experience”

Xenophon Sachinis
Fine Arts School,Printing Department, Aristotle University, Thessalonii Greece
xenisax@vis.auth.gr
Paper: " The Hidden Dimension of Printing 2"

Rebecca Salter
London, UK
rmsalter@salwin.dircon.co.uk
Paper: “Japanese Woodblock Printing and the Art of Travel in Edo Period Japan”

Kyle Schlesinger
Cuneiform Press, Berlin, Germany
ks46@buffalo.edu
Paper #1: "Schablone Berlin"
Paper #2: "Ragged Edges"

Carole M Shepheard
The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
c.shepheard@auckland.ac.nz
Paper: Proposal Forthcoming

Andreas Schönfeldt
Tshwane University of Technology, Republic of South Africa
and.schon@absamail.co.za
Paper: (working title)“Afrikaans counterpart Kontak: Collaboration between North Ireland and South Africa”

Olga Shustrova (Kassianenko)
Saint Petersburg, Russia
symbolga@mail.ru

Paper: (working title) "Kontakt Between Russia and Scandinavia"

Minna Sora
University of Lapland, Tampere, Finland
indian.girl@luukku.com
Paper and Portfolio Proposal: (working title) ”Printmaking - through the eyes of public and artists”

Paul Thirkell
University of the West of England, Bristol. UK
Paul.Thirkell@uwe.ac.uk
Paper: “A Borderless State: Redefining Print in the Digital Age”

Dominic Thorburn
School of Fine Art Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
D.Thorburn@ru.ac.za
Paper Proposal: Forthcoming

Vappu Thurlow
Estonian Art critic and curator, Estonia
vappu@hot.ee
Paper Proposal: “ Contact between the Author and the Audience: Revelation of Avoidance?”

Ruth Weisberg
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
reweisb@usc.edu
Final Keynote Address: (topic to be formed from conference program itself)
Funded through the Trust for Mutual Understanding

Kristina Zalite
Bralorne, British Columbia, Canada
arcticprint@canada.com
Paper: “Globalism and the Conception of Canadian and Alaskan Arctic Printmaking”

Barbara Zeigler
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
bzeigler@interchange.ubc.ca
Paper: “Shifts in Print Practice and Critical Discourse: The Collaborative Potential of Digital Technologies in the Pedagogy of Interdisciplinary-Based Print Media”

PROPOSALS FOR PANELS:
These are proposals for panels that relate to the themes outlined on the conference web site. The conference organizing committee may form additional panels if needed to cover the various conference themes.

Katherine Bull
Cape Town, South Africa
kgb@sun.ac.za   
Panel: “The Frontier of Knowledge: The Print as Cultural Currency in Contemporary South African

Alicia Candiani
Buenos Aires, Argentina
alican@abaconet.com.ar 
Panel: “Diverse, unequal, different…inter-connected”

Teresa Cole
Associate Professor of Art
Tulane University New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
colet7@tulane.edu
Panel Proposal: “Migrating Souls: The Effects of International Exchange on Artists”.(A Cross-Cultural Panel, 3 or 4 individuals)

Egan Group
Paul Bantey, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Matthew Egan, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates                          
Eirik Heintz, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Heather Musie, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates
megan@ausharjah.edu (Matt Egan)
Panel: “Multi-Culture and Mono-Culture in the U.A.E.”

Sue Gollifer
University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
s.c.gollifer@bton.ac.uk
Panel: “Digital Creativity: Crossing Borders & Boundaries”

Nicholas Hill
Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio 43081 USA
Nhill@otterbein.edu
Panel: “Crossing Borders and International Exchange”

John Hitchcock, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
jhitchcock@education.wisc.edu
Keith Christensen, St. Cloud State University, Minnesota, USA
kc@stcloudstate.edu
Panel: “Transportation/Movement”

Karen Oremus
Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
karen.oremus@zu.ac.ae
Panel and Portfolio-Exhibition Proposal: “East Meets West - Cross Cultural Exchange through Printmaking”

Mark Pascale
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. USA
mpascale@artic.edu
Panel: "The History and Future of Print Competitions"
Funded through the Trust for Mutual Understanding

Jeff Rankin
School of Applied Art, East London, South Africa
jrankin@bortech.ac.za
Panel Proposal (2 persons): “ "Relief In Research?"

Paul Thirkell
University of the West of England, Bristol. UK
Paul.Thirkell@uwe.ac.uk
Panel: “Printmaking as Enlightenment Aesthetics: What is Left of this Tradition? The Enlightened Path from Didero to Digital”

April Vollmer and others
New York, NY USA
april@aprilvollmer.com
Participating artists: Jens Bohr of Denmark, Daniel Heyman of the US, Dariusz Kaca of Poland, Merijean Morrissey of Canada, Eva Pietzker of Germany, and Michael Reed of New Zealand, Nel Pak of the Netherlands, and April Vollmer of the US.
Panel: “Japanese Water-Based Woodblock Prints by Artists from the Nagasawa Art Park Program”

POTENTIAL PANELISTS:
These are individuals who may play a role on some of the panels. Additional panelists may be drawn from the list of people proposing papers.

Peter Ford

Off-Centre Gallery, Bristol, UK
offcentre@lineone.net
Potential Panelist: role to be determined

Mark Franchino
Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota, USA
mfranchino@plainsart.org
Potential Panelist: Role to be determined

Davida Kidd
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
dkidd@shaw.ca
Potential Panelist: "International Print Competitions"

Bill Hosterman
Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, USA
hostermw@gvsu.edu
Panelist: "Student International Kontakt"

Christa Wolf
The Ink Shop Printmaking Center & Olive Branch Press,Ithaca, NY
christa@ink-shop.org
Panel or Panelist: "Crossing Borders and International Exchange

PROPOSED DEMONSTRATIONS:
Specific technical demonstrations. There are opportunties for these to take place in both Berlin and Poznan. More submissions are still needed in this category and may be sent at anytime.

Henrik Bøegh
Grafisk Eksperimentarium, Copenhagen, Denmark
mail@artbag.dk
Demonstration: “Non-Toxic Photo Intaglio Methods”

Anju Chaudhuri
Paris, France
chaudhuri@caramail.com
Demonstration: “Viscosity of oil in colour etching”

Carmon Colangelo
University of Georgia, Athens, GA USA
ccola@uga.edu
Demonstration: "Printerly Combinations" (working title)

Wim Habraken
Den Bosch, Netherlands
kurtface@planet.nl
Demonstration: “Edible Inks and Other Innovative Applications in Screenprinting” (working title)

Bill Hosterman
Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, USA
hostermw@gvsu.edu
Demonostration: "Drypoint Lithography" (also a portfolio of prints)

Dennis Olsen
University of Texas, San Antonio, Texas, USA
and the Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, Italy
dolsen@santareparata.org
Demonstration: (Working Title) “Water-Based Monoprinting”

Eva Pietzcker and Haruka Furusaka
Druckstelle, Berlin, Germany and Osaka, Japan
info@druckstelle.info
furusakaharuka@hotmail.com
Demonstration: “Japanese Woodblock Printmaking with Water-Based Inks”

Dennis O'Neil
Hand Print Workshop International, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
denniska@verizon.net
Demonstration: "Alternative Approaches in Screenprinting"

POTENTIAL INVITED PRESENTERS:
These are special presenters who we hope will play a central role in the conference.

Thomas Kilpper
Berlin, Germany
Demonstration or Lecture: Potential Conference Participant

Friedrich A. Kittler
Seminar für Ästhetik, Humbodlt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Peter.Geble@rz.hu-berlin.de (Peter Geble, Secretary)
Keynote Address: “Walter Benjamin”

David Lynch
USA and Poland
panczenko@education.wisc.edu (Paula Panczenko)
Keynote speaker and exhibition: through Tandem Press, Madison, WI, USA

Annette Seeler
Berlin, Germany
Seeler-Autorin@gmx.de
Paper: Recommended by Dr. Gudrun Fritsch of the Käthe Kollwitz Museum to present a paper or participate in a panel on Kollwitz.

Klaus Staeck
Heidelberg, Germany
info@staeck.de
Potential Keynote Speaker