Pre-Pop to Post-Human: Collage in the Digital Age was an exhibition with 37 newly commissioned prints by fifteen emerging artists, works that were shown alongside a selection of sixteen lithographs and screenprints from Paolozzi’s portfolio ‘BUNK’, created as collages in 1952. Commissioned artists included Pio Abad, Marie Angeletti, Helen Carmel Benigson, Gabriele Beveridge, Steve Bishop, Bryan Dooley, Adham Faramawy, Anthea Hamilton, Nicholas Hatfull, Eloise Hawser, Jack Lavender, Harry Meadows, Berry Patten, Peles Empire and Samara Scott. A vibrant exhibition in appearance this resonated with many of my research efforts to historically contextualise how technology’s advances changes the mediation of images and the society that sees them, juxtaposing works by Britain’s best-known artist with a range of his successors.

'Each artist in ‘Pre-Pop to Post-Human: Collage in the Digital Age’ draws upon imagery from popular culture to create works reflecting on the ways in which our bodies respond to technology, and on our social lives within this new cosmology. Some offer up new, surrealistic landscapes, fusing popular icons and images into new vistas, whilst others use iconography from advertising slogans, video games and popular magazines.'

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/31063