"At
the
Edge"
A
Portfolio
of
Digigraphy
Boston,
MA,
1998
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In
April
1998,
in
celebration
of
Mass
Art's
125
birthday,
Dorothy
Slmpson
Krause,
Karin
Schminke
and
Bonny
Lhotka
spent
two
weeks
as
Artists-in-Residence.
They
produced
a
portfolio
of
six
digital
transfers,
digigraphs.
The
images
were
printed
using
the
3M 
Cactus
RIP
on
the
Encad
Novajet
Pro
50
on
QIS
film
and
transferred
to
Arches
30" x
22" rag
paper
in
an
edition
of
30.
Accompanied
by
an
essay
written
by
Dr.
Francine
Koslow
Miller,
the
completed
portfolio
was
presented
to
Kay
Sloan,
MassArt's
President
for
use
in
the
college's
fundraising
efforts.
At
a
retail
price
of
$800
per
image,
the
value
of
the
college's
fifteen
portfolios
of
six
images
is
$72,000;
this
gift
was
matched
by
the
State
of
Massachusetts.
During their residency at the college, they were filmed for a segment in the 12 hour ABC News Special, "History of the Twentieth Century". They will introduce the program entitled "Exploring the Unknown" which focuses on flight, space, the atomic age and computer technology. They also hosted a lunch-time presentation and a day-long seminar, "Beyond the Digital Print" sharing the processes they have developed with the college community and participants from across the country.
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Digital Atelier is a registered trademark of Dorothy Simpson Krause, Bonny Lhotka and Karin Schminke. All images copyright of the artists.