JAMES FAURE WALKER
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    • 2021 REMEMBERING ARTSCRIBE
    • 2020 SPEED LIMITS : DIGITAL PAINT & ABSTRACT PAINTING
    • 2020 DUBUFFET, DRAWING & DISORDER
    • 2019 TALES FROM THE OCHRE FACTORY : LUMPS, GHOSTS, CIGARS
    • 2019 WATERCOLOUR
    • 2018 THE ROYAL WATERCOLOUR SOCIETY : A BRIEF HISTORY
    • 2018 THE CLAIMS OF SOCIAL ART, FORTY YEARS ON
    • 2017 CAN WATERCOLOUR GET SMART?
    • 2013 LEARNING TO DRAW
    • 2008 PRIDE, PREJUDICE & THE PENCIL
    • 2006 RIVER GODS : PAINTING THE DIGITAL RIVER
    • 2004 THE RECKLESS & THE ARTLESS: PRACTICAL RESEARCH AND DIGITAL PAINTING
    • 2002 WORKING WITH COMPUTERS
    • 1999 FINDING OUT HOW TO PAINT
    • 1997 LEARNING THE THEORY
    • 1995 THE OUTSIDE INSIDE OF TECHNO ART
    • 1994 ART & THE INTELLIGENT LUNCHBOX
    • 1980 CLYFFORD STILL, ARTSCRIBE
    • 1978 THE CLAIMS OF SOCIAL ART
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Publications

Reviews of David Novros, Bernard Cohen, Peter Stroud, Basil Beattie, Henry Mundy, Brendan Neiland, 1974/6
Space Studios, Sean Scully, John Edwards), Studio International
The Activity of Criticism I and II (interviews with Max Kozloff, Harold Rosenberg, Rosalin Krauss, Lucy Lippar, 1975
Roberta Smith, Walter Darby Bannard), Studio International
Interview with Patrick Heron, Artscribe 2 1976
‘AD (Alternative Developments, so-called)’, Artscribe 2 1976
Paper at the AIR Conference on Criticism (published 1979) 1976
‘Towards a Definition of the Progressive in Painting’, Artscribe 3 1976
‘The Medium of the Thinking Eye’, Artscribe 5 1977
Interviews with Bernard Cohen, RB Kitaj, Artscribe 5 1977
‘Defence of Painting Now’, Artscribe 6 1977
Interview with Al Held, Artscribe 7 1977
Interview with Richard Cork, Artscribe 7 1977
‘Mapping the Hayward Annual’, Artscribe 8 1977
Interview with Stephen Buckley, Artscribe 9 1977
Interview with Clement Greenberg, Artscribe 10 1977
‘De Kooning’, Artscribe 10 1978
‘Images of Surrealism’, Artscribe 11 1978
Paper at the State of British Art conference at the ICA, Studio International 1978
‘The Claims of Social Art’, Artscribe 12 1978
Interview with Bruce Lacey and Jill Bruce, Artscribe 15 1979
‘Fertile Forms’, Artscribe 16 (and in London Magazine) 1979
Introduction in Hayward Annual Catalogue, Arts Council 1979
‘Relevance in Criticism’, Style in the Seventies catalogue 1979
‘Ham Epic, or Putting Human Life Back into Art’, Artscribe 20 1979
‘In Defence of Artscribe’, Art Monthly 1980
‘Babylonian Oasis’, Artscribe 22 1980
‘Clyfford Still’, Artscribe 23 1980
Interview with John Hoyland, Artscribe 24 1980
‘Explaining what Modern Means’, Artscribe 26 1980
‘Awkward Moments (the New Spirit in Painting)’, Artscribe 27 1981
‘Understanding Pastiche’, Artscribe 30 1981
‘Creating Chances’, Artscribe 33 1982
Introduction to the Fifties, Artscribe 34 1982
Interview with Irving Sandler, Artscribe 34 1982
‘Ivon Hitchens’, Artscribe 34 1982
‘Wragg, Gili, Smart’, Artscribe 35 1982
‘Mixing with Decadence’, Artscribe 37 1982
‘Sense of Place’, Artscribe 381982
‘Criticism in Europe’, Artscribe 40 1983
‘Artscribe in Britain’, Marseille Art Present catalogue, France 1983
‘Australia’, Artscribe 43 1984
‘Patrick Heron: Paintings of the Seventies’, Barbican exhibition catalogue 1985
‘The Figure in Sculpture’, Ikon Gallery Catalogue 1985
Essay in ‘James Faure Walker’, Whitworth Gallery exhibition catalogue 1985
De Kooning entry in Makers of Modern Culture, Routledge 1985
‘The Computer and Painting’, Breaking the Barriers, Preston 1989
‘Painting with the Computer’, Modern Painters, Summer 1992
‘Art and the Intelligent Lunch-Box’, Modern Painters, Spring 1994
‘Computers, Painting and Ambition’, 5th ISEA Proceedings 1994
‘Teaching Cyber Art’, CADE, Brighton 1995
‘Computing and Painting in London’, SIGGRAPH Art Show catalogue, LA 1995
‘The SIGGRAPH Electronic Theatre’, FPS Animation magazine, Montreal 1995
‘The Outside/Inside of Techno Art’, Mute, Winter
1995
Report of Montreal ISEA, ISEA Newsletter 1995
‘Cool Heaven: Painting and the New Electronic Art’, CHART Proceedings 1996
‘High Culture meets Mall Culture’, Wired (UK), December 1996
Statement in YLEM, San Francisco, USA 1996
Catalogue introduction, Computerkunst, Gladbeck, Germany 1996
ISEA96 comment, Rhizome Internet Digest 1996
‘Paint Programs’, Computer Generated Imaging 1997
‘Cyber Theory, Oh Dear’, Computer Generated Imaging 1997
‘CADE’, Computer Generated Imaging 1997
‘Computers in the Painting Department’, Outline, CTI 1997
‘Slaves to the Algorithm’, Computer Generated Imaging 1997
Review of Painter 5, Computer Generated Imaging 1997
Review of ISEA 97 Chicago, Computer Generated Imaging 1997
‘Pigeons and the Digital Print’, Computer Generated Imaging 1998
‘On Touch in Digital Painting’, Computerkunst catalogue, Gladbeck, Germany 1998
‘Revolution through the Carpet’, Computer Generated Imaging 1998
‘Patrick Heron Paintings of the Seventies’, (reprinted) Tate Gallery catalogue 1998
Paul Clifford ‘Migrations’, Chichester Festival catalogue 1998
Report on SIGGRAPH 98 Florida, Computer Generated Imaging, September 1998
Report on ISEA 98, Computer Generated Imaging, November 1998 1998
Review of ‘The Computer in the Visual Arts’, Computer Generated Imaging, February 1999
Painting, Writing and not Going Gently’, essay in ‘5 into 20’, Kingston University, exhibition catalogue, curated and introduced 1999
by Bruce Russell 1999
‘Heron, De Kooning, Serious Games, British Abstraction’, in ‘100 Reviews Backwards’ edited by Matthew Arnatt, Matthew 1999
Collings, Cornelia Grassi, Verlag der Buchhandlung, Walther Konig  
‘The Colour and Motion Series’, catalogue essay, Colville Place Gallery 2000
Studio Visit, Jeff Dellow catalogue, Standort Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
2000
‘Plugging into the Past: Muybridge’, Art Review 2001
‘Silent Motion’ catalogue essay, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University 2001
‘Drawing’, Tracey Online Journal 2002
Interview with Greenberg (1978), republished in ‘Clement Greenberg, Late Writings’, edited by Robert C. Morgan, University of 2003
Minnesota Press
‘How digital and traditional mediums can work together’, Artists and Illustrators 2003
‘Painting and Digital Art’, Artists and Illustrators, April 2005
‘Writing Painting the Digital River’, in Information Visualisation, iV05, edited by Ebad Banissi, Anna Ursyn, et al, IEEE 2005
Computer Society, USA  
‘Painting the Digital River: How an Artist Learned to Love the Computer’, Prentice Hall, USA 2006
‘I Told You So: Painting in Digital Culture’, SIGGRAPH Art and Animation Catalogue, Boston, USA 2006
‘Altered Filament’, Artech conference, Pontevedra, Spain 2006
Bruce Russell, Paintings, Beardsmore Gallery 2007
‘Translation, Translation, Oh Translation’, Garageland magazine 2007
‘Pride, Prejudice and the Pencil’, in ‘Writing on Drawing: Essays on Drawing Practice and Research’, edited by Steven Garner, 2008
Intellect/Chicago  
‘A Drawing Book for a Digital World: the missing chapters’, paper at the ‘Fine Arts in Egypt, 100 years of Creativity’ 2008
conference, Cairo  
‘Machines, Drawing and Vision’, Chart conference, London 2008
‘Drawn Encounters’, Visual Communication, Sage, Volume 8 number 2 2009
‘The Origins of Artscribe’, at the Artists’ Writings conference, Courtauld Institute 2009
‘Drawing Lessons for Ants’, ISEA conference, Belfast 2009
‘Sette Inglesi a Milano’ (Catalogue introduction, English and translated into Italian)Galleria Milano/Austin Desmond Gallery, 2009
London  
‘Drawing Machines, Bathing Machines, Motorbikes, the Stars.... Where are the Masterpieces?’ in Tracey, Drawing and 2010
Technology
 
‘On Not Being Able to Draw a Mousetrap’, Journal of Creative Interfaces & Computer Graphics, June 2011, edited by Ben 2011
Falchuk (Telcordia Technologies Inc., USA); Adérito Marcos (Universidade Aberta, Portugal), Published Semi-Annually.  
‘The Past and Present of the Digital Manual’, paper at the Recto/Verso: Redefining the Sketchbook conference, University of 2011
Lincoln  
‘Painting further along the River’, ISEA Istanbul conference 2011
Drawing Books and Digital Devices: Paper for 'Drawing Connections - China Risk and Revolution', October 26-28, Lu Xun 2011
Academy of Art, Dalian, China, International Drawing Research Institute College of Fine Art, UNSW, AustraliaUNSW, COFA,  
publication in Mandarin and English
‘Getting Closer to Nature: Artists in the Lab’, in ‘Biologically-Inspired Computing for the Arts: Scientific Data through 2012
Graphics’, IGI Global, USA
 
‘A Drawing Book for Digital Eyes’, paper given in Lisbon at the 'Drawing in Question' conference, March 2010, published in 2012
Linha do Horizonte journal, Issue 2, Lisbon  
‘Learning to Draw from Forgotten Manuals’, paper at the ‘Drawing in the University Today’ conference, University of Porto 2013
Foreword in ‘Perceptions of Knowledge Visualization: Explaining Concepts through Meaningful Images’,edited by Anna Ursyn, 2014
Idea Group, USA  
Catherine Mason, ‘Going with the Flow’, British Computer Society, March 2014 2014
Obituary of Jim Adley, Guardian, April 2 2015
http://www.interaliamag.org/articles/five-paragraphs-and-seven-pictures/ 2016
http://www.interaliamag.org/articles/learning-to-draw-from-forgotten-manuals/ 2016
‘Jeff Lowe: Sculptor/Maker’, catalogue introduction, Pangolin Gallery, London 2016
'Can watercolour get smart?' 2017
‘Painting the Digital River: Before and After’, in Painting, Digital, Photography: Synthesis and Difference in the Age of Media 2018
Equivalence, edited by Carl Robinson, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.  
‘Learning to Draw from Forgotten Manuals’ (2014 paper) 2014
‘Drawing in the University Today’, PSIAX, nº3, series II, Universities of Porto and Minho 2018
‘The Claims of Social Art, Forty Years On’, in David Redfern catalogue, Felix and Spear 2018
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