The Negligent Eye PB

This publication accompanies the exhibition The Negligent Eye,curated by Jo Stockham, Head of Printmaking at the Royal College of Art, and developed in collaboration with the Bluecoat, Liverpool, 8 March 15 June 2014. The exhibition reflected the ways artists use scanning technology in their work, particularly in the area of printmaking. This publication develops these ideas through essays by Stockham and Chantal Faust that explorethe idea that the scan is both a close reading and a glance, an apparent contradiction that the artists explore through the rapidly developing scanning and other digital reprographic processes at their