Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges

Beyond its historical significance in information dissemination, printmaking democratized access to art and played a significant role in (re)shaping culture. Taking mokuhanga, a Japanese water-based ink woodblock printing technique, and its developments and historical ukiyo-e printmaking as archeological digs to inform contemporary (material) media cultures demarcates the body of research. Dissectingg Ukiyo-e as guiding forerunner for contemporary social media, and as activist informant to symbiotic planetary developments.