Panel SGCI
Voices of Silence

Voices of Silence the panel organized and chaired by  ´ace’s director Alicia Candiani, within the SGC International Conference “PRINT-MKE”,  took place at the MIAD in Milwaukee, USA on Friday March 22th, 2013.

Attended by an impressive audience composed of artists, curators, students from MIAD (Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design) and UWM (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) the panel attempted to be a platform of reflection regarding the “expanded” possibilities of contemporary print media and their role within “silent zones,” zones where graphics/print-media has brought greater focus to marginalized issues giving voice to the silent, to subaltern politics or ecological issues.

Through an expanded view of the medium this panel focused on to evince traditional print-media and its repercussions into myriad possibilities including the multiple, installation, sound, and other forms. It is in this discursive component of print-media and the multiple that this panel’s presentations addressed the transgressive properties of the medium, not only in terms of using techniques and media that defy categorization but also in the way the projects open dialogues with the viewer about their own context and position.  The trans-disciplinary aspect of the print media allows for alternate ways to engage the viewer and displaces traditional practices into contemporary approaches that more directly involves an audience, giving voice to the voiceless.