Don't blame the machine — low‑tech print workshop

Don't blame the machine — low‑tech print workshop

Project Description

This three-hour workshop invites participants to explore mimeography — a pre-digital printing process from the early 20th century that democratised printing and enabled self-publishing and community circulation of ideas. Participants will learn about its history and process, prepare their own stencils, and print together. We will use two Gestetner mimeograph machines, each with its own color. Instead of producing separate works, everyone will print on a paper roll, creating a collective banner. The result will be a visual record of experimentation, collaboration, and joyful confusion of authorship. In this workshop, we rediscover how design, even in its most mechanical form, can be collective, messy, and radically open.

Obsolet Studio

Artist Bio

Obsolet is a non-commercial Mimeo printing studio that works with analog stencil duplicators. The team consists of four people with different backgrounds from graphics, art, literature, music, political science and education, from whose connection the studio draws its creative power and dynamism. Our approach is experimental, exploratory and sustainable. We promote critical examination of the throwaway society and innovative approaches that make analog and digital knowledge fruitful for each other. We cooperate with other printing studios, artists and interested people with whom we work on various projects that promote networking, knowledge transfer and analog printing practices (mediation, workshops, performances, publications, building up knowledge, etc.).

Helena Segarra(AT)
Julien, Segarra(FR)
Marlene Haider(AT)
Johannes Oberhuber(AT)
Paul Grassler(DE)

Online Links

web: https://obsolet.at/
insta: @obsoletstudio / #obsoletstudio