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List of published articles © Monika_Auch 2014 - 2015 2014 Textile Lab ! Interview with Hebe Verstappen of Dutch TextileLab about the ambitions of the Textile Museum to be a bridge between innovative technology and designer/makers. Presenting the museum as a collecting institution of textile works, commissioning work, while stimulating and supporting new developments in the field of CAD/CAM machinery and smart textiles in the TextileLab. 2330 words, Dutch, kM 89

2014 The magic of tactile printing ! Thomas Gravemaker is a master of letterpress printing. His studio looks like a filmscenario of an Ingrid Bergman film. Set in an old warehouse in Amsterdam it houses impressive old printing machines. Young colleagues come here to learn the art of letterpress. For example debossing and photopolymeer techniques are being used and developped into phantastic colourful and tactile prints.

2014 Analogue and digital in times of need ! Amsterdamʼs Rijksacademy has suffered with governmental cuts in financial support. 25 artists are selected annually. Interview with Roy Taylor, head of media lab about artistʼs perseverance in times of need by helping each other. He shows work by African artists visualizing a political angle that cannot be ignored while skilfully taping into the collective memory of Hollywood films.

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2014 Decay and reproduction ! Interview with jewelry maker Gesine Hackenberg who works with electrophorming technique to transform her paper models of fruit into non-decaying wearable jewelry. kM 90 2200 words, Dutch 2014 Les raisons du coeur ! Master printer Erik Fliek was commissioned to make 10 copies of the romantic and philosophcal artistʼs book ʻLes raisons du coeurʼ by Jan Uriot. He worked with digital printing, silkscreen printing and bookbinding techniques to make a copy that is almost more beautiful than the original. kM 90, 1700 words, Dutch

2014 Foundation for the Conservation of Contemporary Art ! SBMK has been occupied with projects related to the maintenance and conservation of contemporary visual art. Its aim is to develop sound practices that can benefit all concerned with the art. This is carried out through collaborations with managers, curators and conservators of collections. Here field-related questions on a range of problems (technical as well as ethical) are raised for discussion. How, for instance, should one deal with perishable materials or with a complex installation? What roles can the artist and the museum play in dealing with such problems? The SBMK initiates projects, helps to make their realization possible and sees to the distribution of information among colleagues in the profession.

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32014 shifting mass ! For Ineke Heerkens, jewellery maker I wrote, edited and translated the publication (NL/ENG) Shifting Mass about her three months Artist in Residence period at the sundaymorning@ekwc ceramic centre starting in spring 2013. I followed her proces working with ceramics and the concluding work at the Dutch Textile Museum. Four parts of the documentation were published during her working period, the last one was published with the showing of her ceramic jewellery at Gallerie Marzee in 2014. Dutch/Eng www.inekeheerkens.nl 2014 Introduction text for the Rijswijk Textile Biennial catalogue ! Skin on the milk - The visual memory of touch ʻInitially it is a slippery, shiny layer on hot milk. When fished out of the cup, dangling from the spoon, it proves to be a surprisingly tenacious substance. Draped over the edge of the saucer it forms interesting folds and wrinkles. Any contact with lip or tongue is for many people abhorrent. Just reading about skin on milk can bring on the impulse to retch. This reaction can often be linked to memories from childhood. What artist would not want to effect such an intense reaction preferably with positive connotations of course – with his/her work? This violent reaction to a layer of congealed casein illustrates how strong our visual perception is allied to touch, memories, associations and visceral emotions. But what is the relationship between sight, skin, touch and gut feelings and textiles? Textile not only appeals to the visual perception but also to our largest organ – skin with its tactile sensors. In just one square centimetre of skin there are 7.5 million cells, 245 sweat glands, 25 hairs, 2.5 metres of blood vessels, 7,500 sensory nerves and 8 million microscopic organisms. The most precise sense of touch is located in the fingertips, where the highest concentration of nerve endings is to be found.ʼ... 893 words NL/ENG 2014 State of the crafts ! The renaissance of traditional techniques in a summary from the Bauhaus period to the 60ʼs and the current combination of digital tools with traditional methods. Textile techniques and relevant artist are being discussed. 600 words, Dutch Textile Plus 229

2014 Master of light and colour ! Peter Struycken is the contemporary Dutch master of colour and light. Having received prestigious prizes and a knighthood he talks about his newest series of paintings

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and gives specific information about his striving to improve the quality of lighting in museums. kM 92 2000 words Dutch

2014 Fragile passion ! Marc Barreda is a biogist and glass artist, the perfect combination for his newest work inspired by the German zoologist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) who presented the beauty of nature with amazing images of seacreatures. Barredaʼs interpretation of this work is based on the 3500 year old Murrine technique. kM 92 1700 words Dutch

2014 ! Tota reciclados, jewelry from Argentinia ! The Dutch ʼFrancoise van den Boschʼ foundation for contemporary jewelry invited Valeria Hasse and Marcela Muniz to stay in their Amsterdam studio. They interviewed Dutch artists and collected small items, memory pieces in order to transfor them into jewelry. The richly abundant necklaces are conversation pieces, assembled from personal memories, built out of broken not yet discarded memorabilia. The collection of twenty pieces was shown in Dutch CODA museum in Apeldoorn together with a video. Textile Plus, 500 words Dutch

2015 The wearable zoo - review of jewelry exhibition Arnhem for Art Jewelry Forum

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! ʻLast Friday, Museum Arnhem in The Netherlands launched a much anticipated exhibition about jewelry and taxidermia: ʻBeauty of the beastʼ shows 51 works, ranging from 19th century pieces to contemporary jewelry via fine Art sculpture and installation. Taxidermia – the process of skillfully conserving dead animals or pieces of animals - is a difficult theme for any artform to tackle because of the obvious emotional, political, scientific and environmental issues it brings up in this century. Pets, industrial farming, wearing fur, genetic manipulation, depletion of nature and the diversity of species (bye bye, bees!): this long, sad list reflects the ambivalent attitude of humans who wield destructive power while professing a great admiration for beasts.ʼ Art Jewelry Forum 600 words

2015 pre-view about yet to be released titles: kM 93 article about natural dyes from a special plants garden for printing art prints kM 93 article about innovative Toyobo printing technique in etching AJF review (2000 words) about the exhibition Body Jewels in the Tilburg Textile Museum Textiel Plus 231 article about dolls and their anthropological meanings book ʻCrafting in a digital ageʼ to be released by Bloomsbury in summer 2015 contribution of 4000 words academic chapter about my research: ʻThe intelligence of the handʼ