Edit! International Symposium: Bordeaux, France
March 3, 2009 | Levent OZLER
Technical innovation is only as good as the codes behind it; the tools it produces are norms and standards created and agreed upon by scientific, economic and political decision-makers - decisions which validate and through which authority gives technology its legitimacy.
Automatic use of technical tools in the graphic arts and publishing conceals their history and importance, and masks technology's function and standardizing effect.
At the height of the digital wave, when technology rules private and public domain alike, questioning our own relationship to technique, to the different media and formats which make up our daily visual life, and the graphic systems which inform them, seems indispensable.
Because graphics are the number one issue in norms and formats.
How should we use graphics which program visual standards? How can we get a grip on digital thinking as programming logic? What will happen to the visual systems in publishing in the face of digital technology?
The conference, "EDIT!" comes at a crucial moment for the École des Beaux-Arts of Bordeaux as it is first and foremost part of a feasibility study for the creation of a graduate program on publishing practices around the theme: "tomorrow's publishing."
It also takes into consideration the role research plays and its pertinence to reforms being made to higher education in the arts.
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