A day of talks about how historical printing presses and type are being used in research, practice, and teaching, followed by a workshop to explore further ways in which they could be used.
The event was convened to discuss what is distinctive about working with historical equipment and how historical print practices might inform our approach to textual, typographical and visual culture today. In response, I presented a series of close readings of contemporary artworks that use letterpressing printing, processes or hardware, and nested those readings within a first theorisation of 'inmediate poetics', a coinage originally proposed in my 2014 essay 'The Mediatization of Contemporary Writing'.
Co-convened by the Centre for Comparative History of Print at Leeds and Centre for Printing History and Culture at Birmingham, this workshop is the second in the ongoing series, 'Letterpress Printing: Past, Present, Future'.
