From electrography to expanded graphics: a vision on digital printmaking today and its hybridization processes

Abstract

This article outlines how, with the introduction of electrographic processes, engravers have broadened their way of thinking and producing their art in relation to the concept of expanded graphic. After delimiting the term electrography and describing its historical development, the text exposes how hybrid practices have expanded the margins of graphics in a post-digital world. They have opened the way to different lines of action that have been popularizing some terms – mainly, in Spanish –, such as intangible matrix, digital print or digital printing. In this way, we will be able to observe the expansion of these languages, their theorization and their implementation through several artworks that will show the discursive possibilities of graphics, from this extended hybridization to other fields, helping to describe different ways of understanding the creative processes of contemporary electrographic art.