A digital print matrix is the digital state from which a print art object can be instanced with original intent.
The traditional term ''
print matrix
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'' is the physical surface from which an image is printed,
woodblock, plate,
stone
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or
screen
Screen or Screens may refer to:
Arts
* Screen printing (also called ''silkscreening''), a method of printing
* Big screen, a nickname associated with the motion picture industry
* Split screen (filmmaking), a film composition paradigm in which mul ...
.
Although these may in themselves be produced digitally they comprise a traditional (physical) matrix. A digital matrix however is a repository of material which, stored digitally, is combined by the artist's hand and instanced with original intent; Philip George's “fluid diary” providing an early example.
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, volume=35 , number=2 , pages=121–127 Technically the digital matrix comprises stable
digital storage
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mechanisms (which retain the data when switched off) rather than volatile
random access memory. Conceptually as there is no need for this storage to be in the physical presence of the artist then
online
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and remote storage (including the
Internet
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) may form as a whole or in part the digital matrix.
References
Digital art