APPARATUS: THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY IN ILLUSTRATION 15TH INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM 21–22 NOVEMBER 2025, KOÇ UNIVERSITY, ISTANBUL Machines, appliances, gizmos, and contraptions have always been a part of illustration, enabling illustrators to transform their thoughts into real-life forms. The machine’s abilities, aesthetics, and impacts on humanity have always been a source of inspiration and concern. With the discussion raging around artificial intelligence as a game-changing technology, and when computers seem to inextricably serve as parts of creation and of our lives, perhaps it is time to take stock and consider the long-established but fluctuating relationship between illustration and the machine.
Volume 12, issue 1 of the Journal of Illustration is consisting of this first and a forthcoming second issue, are the result of papers presented and subsequently submitted for the 13th Annual Illustration Research Symposium held at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri in 2023. This volume of the journal represents their research efforts all working towards the common aim of illuminating the various manifestations of the blind spot in the field of illustration.
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The 14th Illustration Research symposium was organised by the Illustration Programme at Camberwell College of Arts, and hosted at Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London (UAL), United Kingdom. These are some highlights from the poster exhibition at the event.
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