California Summer Camp 2022 at Redwood National Park
California Summer Camp 2022 at Redwood National
August 14, 2025
On August 14 and 15, Erguvan members joined UC Davis interns for a hands-on block carving activity. The interns had been learning about chip design and manufacturing and discovering its similarities to the printmaking process.
In this session, we, as both instructors and participants, explored how the detailed and iterative process of printmaking mirrors the work done in chip design. After a brief design research phase, Leyla, an artist with printmaking as her primary medium, explained the principles of multi-color block carving. She demonstrated the importance of carving each color layer separately before printing, then continuing to refine and carve additional layers to end up with a multi-dimensional piece.
Each intern worked on different layers of different designs. We all took turns carving, printing, and refining our designs, experiencing how artistic mediums can inform technological processes and vice versa. Specifically, the steps in silkscreening and chip design closely mirror each other, and that was the key realization we aimed to share with the interns.
Take a look at some moments from our collaborative printmaking journey below!
California Summer Camp 2022 at Redwood National
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