{"id":145,"date":"2021-06-30T08:08:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T08:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/?page_id=145"},"modified":"2023-03-05T18:00:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T18:00:58","slug":"text-image","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/index.php\/text-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Text\/Image"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3>Text Wars<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1007\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Graf-scan-1-1024x1007.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"156\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Graf-scan-1-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/?attachment_id=156\" class=\"wp-image-156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Graf-scan-1-1024x1007.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Graf-scan-1-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Graf-scan-1-768x755.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Graf-scan-1-1536x1510.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Graf-scan-1-2048x2014.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Graf-scan-1-1568x1542.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"997\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Alpha-scan-1--1024x997.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"155\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Alpha-scan-1--scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/?attachment_id=155\" class=\"wp-image-155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Alpha-scan-1--1024x997.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Alpha-scan-1--300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Alpha-scan-1--768x748.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Alpha-scan-1--1536x1496.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Alpha-scan-1--2048x1994.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Alpha-scan-1--1568x1527.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1005\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/QR-scan-1-1024x1005.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"157\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/QR-scan-1-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/?attachment_id=157\" class=\"wp-image-157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/QR-scan-1-1024x1005.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/QR-scan-1-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/QR-scan-1-768x754.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/QR-scan-1-1536x1508.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/QR-scan-1-2048x2011.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/QR-scan-1-1568x1540.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">My work focuses on the visual aspects of written language in forms, such as handwriting, printed text and digital media and the relationship that exists between text and image.&nbsp; But there is a wider context which has an impact on meaning.&nbsp; Writing is a technology.&nbsp; Each technology of writing involves different materials and different levels of engagement and these differences are significant.&nbsp; This premise is the basis of Medium Theory.&nbsp; <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Medium Theory\u2019 was articulated most famously by Marshall McLuhan in a series of works:&nbsp; <em>The Gutenberg Galaxy <\/em>(1962) and <em>Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man <\/em>(1964).&nbsp; The word \u2018medium\u2019 refers to the means in which text is transmitted, be it hand-written with a pen, printed in a book or typed on a computer and the central proposition of this theory is that such modes of communication are never neutral.&nbsp; They have an effect on individual cognition and values and beliefs of a society, as well as social forces and the distribution of power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cThe behaviour of the writing space becomes a metaphor for the human mind as well as for social interaction.\u201d (J D Bolter, Writing Space 2011)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The three main modes of communication in the history of writing have been the manuscript culture of the medieval era; the printed book, originating with Gutenberg at the start of the Enlightenment in the 15<sup>th<\/sup> century; and the visual and electronic media of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> Century.&nbsp; Philosophers and scientists of the late Renaissance used the medium of print to displace and reshape the medieval organisation and expression of knowledge; and the World Wide Web, as a global system of hypertext, is now challenging the authority and autonomy of print.&nbsp; The history of writing chronicles a \u2018struggle\u2019 of each technology to overcome existing modes of communication, maintain and develop its own position as the dominant rule of expression and then come under fire from competing sources of information.&nbsp; It reads like the rise and fall of Empires, of rites of succession and shifts in the balance of power, as power lies with whoever controls the means of communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the key characteristics involved in descriptions of these transformations is the \u2018Line\u2019.&nbsp; This relates to the influence of the written word over the image or picture. The Line represents a whole way of thinking or belief system that appears to have epitomised the age of print and had a detrimental effect on the consideration of difference.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This influence is slowly being eradicated by the prevalence of digital technology and hypermedia and the relationship of the straight line with the curve, an analogy which refers to the relationship between the word and the image.&nbsp; As images, prevalent in medieval times, come once more to the fore in digital culture, our reception of the information we are transmitted is altered significantly, in terms of interaction and immersion for the reader or viewer.&nbsp; This in turn will change how we relate to ourselves, the world and each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20181020_113744-2-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20181020_113744-2-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20181020_113744-2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20181020_113744-2-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20181020_113744-2-1536x1020.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20181020_113744-2-2048x1360.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20181020_113744-2-1568x1041.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Linocut monoprint collage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hypertext is text in the electronic world, which is often an amalgamation with visual images.  But not in the sense of traditional images like painting or drawing, which attempted to imitate objects in the real world.   QR codes can only be read by machines who convert information into a language we can understand.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The influence of the elite nature of text, as a learned, private technology is waning and this reconnection and synthesis with image is perhaps the necessary ingredient in order to form a more balanced view of the world and its inhabitants.  It means the distribution of power in society has also changed from the academics, who were the &#8216;Kings of the Book&#8217; in the Age of Enlightenment, to those who control the media and our information technology in the digital era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also seems natural to explore it in a practice-based as well as a word-based way, as the distinction between the arts and the sciences breaks down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3>The Evolution of Text<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"708\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20181020_113728-2-1024x708.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20181020_113728-2-1024x708.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20181020_113728-2-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20181020_113728-2-768x531.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20181020_113728-2-1536x1062.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20181020_113728-2-2048x1417.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20181020_113728-2-1568x1085.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Linocut monoprint with ink<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"723\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20181020_113717-2-1024x723.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20181020_113717-2-1024x723.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20181020_113717-2-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20181020_113717-2-768x542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20181020_113717-2-1536x1084.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20181020_113717-2-2048x1446.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20181020_113717-2-1568x1107.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Linocut monoprint with ink<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cEverywhere in the media-saturated environment, there are efforts to \u2018colour in\u2019 and make figures out of arbitrary symbols.\u201d (J D Bolter, Writing Space 2011)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This work is designed to combine the three chronological elements of written language (gestural hand writing, printed text and machine-read code), accentuating their form and pattern and divorced from their semiotic function of communication.&nbsp; Digitalisation reduces all texts to the same format as \u2018patterns\u2019 in code.&nbsp; In these prints, the \u2018language\u2019 is obliterated by the overlapping shapes and the patches of colour.&nbsp; They are each, just an \u2018abstract image\u2019, a colourful repetitive pattern, like code.&nbsp; The spaces between the characters have been filled with black and coloured ink to represent the dark screen of a computer that comes to life with symbols and colour when it is switched on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Layered linocut prints emulate the design of hypermedia where layers of text, image, film, animation and sound are all employed to create a more immediate and authentic experience than traditional media like books.&nbsp; But the bolder, more impressive, eye-catching result is just sophisticated technology; a simulation of the \u2018real\u2019 and far more effective at manipulation and control in terms of advertising or social media.&nbsp; Computers even imitate other forms of media in producing representations and are the epitome of the postmodern world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In digital format, all data is imported and transformed in highly technical applications from various sources.&nbsp; The user issues instructions to the software to arrange the elements as required which is still carried out by a hand using a mouse or by touching a screen.&nbsp; \u2018Colouring in\u2019 the images felt like retaining the primitive \u2018hands-on\u2019 quality, which technology is slowly taking away.&nbsp; This process feels \u2019natural\u2019 because we are used to doing it; like reading printed books.&nbsp; But our psychological expectations and our habitual, gestural relation with the apparatuses of technology are changing all the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They resemble a window with a rectangular, segmented view on the world or a collection of multiple screens in a television gallery, where various camera shots are available at the same time.&nbsp; This is also the case with a computer interface, where several windows can be accessed on the screen simultaneously.&nbsp; Fragments or perspectives of reality are broken up and exist in space at the same time, similar to cubism. But in \u2018reality\u2019, however many views there are, we can only look at them one at a time.&nbsp; However many streams of information we are bombarded with, in however many forms of visual and verbal language, we can only read one text at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>This work was exhibited:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/AYI_PosterMT_11am-724x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-464\" width=\"334\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/AYI_PosterMT_11am-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/AYI_PosterMT_11am-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/AYI_PosterMT_11am-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/AYI_PosterMT_11am-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/AYI_PosterMT_11am-1448x2048.jpg 1448w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/AYI_PosterMT_11am-1568x2218.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/AYI_PosterMT_11am-scaled.jpg 1810w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Evolution of Text (black, white and red print) was accepted and exhibited at the <strong>Bradford Open <\/strong>2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"780\" height=\"527\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_3525.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_3525.jpg 780w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_3525-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_3525-768x519.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><figcaption>Linocut collage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Text Wars My work focuses on the visual aspects of written language in forms, such as handwriting, printed text and digital media and the relationship that exists between text and image.&nbsp; But there is a wider context which has an impact on meaning.&nbsp; Writing is a technology.&nbsp; Each technology of writing involves different materials and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/index.php\/text-image\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Text\/Image<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulinecooke.trapeziumarts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}