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Call For Panelists- Printelligence and Slow Media: How Print, Thinks, Feels, and Responds

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Posted by: 2026 Mid American Print Council Conference Baton Rouge, LA
Deadline: Fri, May 1st, 2026

**PRINTELLIGENCE and Slow Media:

How Print Thinks, Feels, & Responds**

Proposed Panel | 2026 Mid America Print Council Conference
PRINTELLIGENCE
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
October 7–10, 2026

Submission link: https://forms.gle/RUpe1S7hSuV7Mjbi8
Panelists selected: 3–4
Submission deadline: Sunday, March 1, 2026

 

 

This panel invites Graduate students, emerging artists, and early-career practitioners, alongside established artists and educators, to explore how print can function as an active, responsive system rather than a fixed or purely visual medium.

Responding to the PRINTELLIGENCE conference theme, the panel focuses on how material processes, sequencing, and hands-on engagement shape meaning in print. Through artists’ books, handmade print methods, and matrix-based approaches, panelists will share ways print can register experience, carry memory, and communicate through touch, time, and use.

At the center of the discussion is slowness, reading carefully, handling materials, and spending time with print forms as they unfold. These durational encounters offer an alternative to fast digital consumption and support deeper attention and reflection. The panel frames printmaking as a counter-temporal practice, where labor, repetition, and material resistance open space for learning, experimentation, and embodied understanding.

 

 

Questions to Consider

Applicants are encouraged to respond to one or more of the following prompts:

 

How can artists’ books and book structures act as ways of thinking or sensing, not just as containers for images or text?

In what ways might print respond to place, time, or environmental conditions, becoming a record of lived experience?

How does learning through materials, plates, matrices, pages, and structures,shape how knowledge is made and shared?

How do sequential, kinetic, or time-based print forms expand what an image, edition, or reader can be?

What kinds of emotional or sensory experiences emerge through handmade, labor-intensive, or materially resistant processes?

How can printmaking push back against speed and automation by emphasizing touch, slowness, and physical engagement?

Posted on Thu, February 5th, 2026
Expires on Fri, May 1st, 2026

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