In Praise of Translation: Recent Intermedial Transpositions in Video, Print and Installation

In this essay different approaches to the recycling images, generated by diverse technologies from historical print to most recent digital video, are discussed with reference to the notion of translation. In a broad interpretation of the notion of ‘recycling’, the concept and practice of ‘translation’ serves as a methodological tool. Specifically, it aids the elucidation not only of the recycling of imagery, but of media and processes in the context of ‘expanded printmaking’ as a vital aspect of intermediality (or interdisciplinarity) in contemporary art.