Am Chunnananda 🍠


I enjoy printing, printmaking, designing, documenting, and collecting.



“Of course, I'll never make that film. Nonetheless, I'm collecting the sets, inventing the twists, putting in my favorite creatures.”
—Sans Soleil

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Am Chunnananda 🍠


I enjoy printing, printmaking, designing, documenting, and collecting.

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Printer Map / Mapper’s Print / Printer’s Map / Mapping Printing
Foldable interactive pocket map visualizing printers on Vassar’s campus.

Collage, relief printing / GIS, Illustrator, InDesign | Spring 2023

10 x 8 in. (unfolded)

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I made this map in my final semester at Vassar, as part of an independent study exploring printmaking and community. All copies were printed using one of the many laser printers located across campus.

I presented copies of the pocket map alongside a larger-scale (and not take-home-able) master map of campus printers & printing machines.*

While making and sharing these maps, I had in mind the following themes:

  • Printing vs. printmaking
  • Campus printers as a network and community resource (printing/printmaking tool accessible to all students, faculty, and staff)
  • Data and digital vs. analog modes of representation/collection
  • Distribution, invitation, ownership
  • Scale, legibility
Pocket map, outside (in use) Pocket map, inside (in use) Master map of campus printers & printing machines Master map adhesion in progress Pocket maps, pre- and post-folding

*Transcript of labels on master map of campus printers & printing machines:

[TOP LEFT] Printing this map entailed...

  • 6 emails - conceptualizing, sharing files
  • 8 emails (separate chain) - learning that this map could not be printed on campus in full or half size (given desired turnaround, likely not off campus either)
  • 1 phone call - and a voicemail
  • Several map + file adjustments
  • 3 rounds of test printing - to check legibility (resolution, contrast)
  • Trimming + joining 16 tiles

[BOTTOM LEFT] Printers (printing machines) On Campus

A map/print/inventory/record/attempt at consolidating information—where printing happens (or can happen) here, what this otherwise unarticulated system looks like, what patterns become visible (if any) when information about it is conveyed in this way

  • Know of one that’s not yet on the map? Stamp it in reference to the legend!
  • *Please apply ink onto this work (not the pillars!) and this work only (not any other!). And please ensure the stamp pads are properly closed after use. Thank you!*
  • If you have an annotation you’d like to add alongside your stamp contribution, email [email] with a photo of your stamp + annotative text. It will be added within 2 days.
  • If something is incorrect, please also email [email].

[RIGHT] Legend

  • Purple: Vprint printer
  • Red: Non-Vprint printer (including personal printers/printing devices)
  • Green: Special printer (e.g. 3D printers)