A new book is under contract with Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Conceived as a conceptual follow-up to Post-Digital Printmaking, Catanese’s new manuscript explores contemporary artificial intelligence and the history of generative practices as they intersect with print media, material practices, and hybrid forms. The project extends research he undertook as a 2024 Fulbright U.S. Scholar to Poland. Artists and researchers working in these areas are invited to get in touch via email: catanese.paul [at] gmail.com.

Post-Digital PrintmakingCNC, Traditional and Hybrid Techniques

Paul Catanese and Angela Geary
A&C Black / Bloomsbury, 2012
160 pages · ISBN 978-1-4081-2494-9

This book defined the field of post-digital printmaking by examining how computer-controlled industrial tools, including laser cutters and CNC routers, can be integrated with traditional matrix-based processes. In a Printeresting review, Jason Urban highlighted the book’s integration of old and new approaches and described the case studies as its richest section, offering a behind-the-scenes view of artists’ working processes. Among the artists, printmakers, and workshops featured are Mike Lyon, Jean-Pierre Hébert, the Centre for Fine Print Research, Ribuoli Digital, Two Palms Press, Terry Winters, Chuck Close, Mel Bochner, Ellen Gallagher, Alex Dodge, Barbara Foster, and Josephine McCormick. Find a copy of this book.

Director’s Third DimensionFundamentals of 3D Programming in Director 8.5

Paul Catanese. Que Publishing, 2001
915 pages · ISBN 978-0-672-32228-0

Published in 2001, Director’s Third Dimension introduced artists, designers, and multimedia developers to coding for the emerging field of real-time 3D. Moving from the conceptual foundations of three-dimensional space through vector math and matrix transformations in Director 8.5, the book made cameras, geometry, scenegraphs, lighting, textures, movement, and interaction approachable through project-based instruction. The accompanying CD-ROM includes more than 140 demos and hands-on laboratories. Find a copy of this book.