Co z tą tradycją? Postcyfrowe praktyki we współczesnej grafice polskiej na przykładach realizacji Krzysztofa Tomalskiego, Karola Pomykały oraz Darka i Filipa Gajewskich.

This text merely signals a broader research issue on which I have been working for a long time. It is the problem of changes that a broadly understood image and imaging are subject to in the post-digital reality. The considerations presented in the article have been narrowed down to the area of artistic printmaking. Selected examples of artistic works serve to indicate the complicated nature of the technically determined creative process, as well as the meandering between tradition and modernity and the materiality and ephemerality of the image itself, which is important for post-digital culture. They are also intended to present the specific changes that the printmaking medium is currently undergoing. The works of Krzysztof Tomalski, Karol Pomykała and Darek and Filip Gajewski differ significantly from one another, yet all of them bear clear features of post-digital thinking about images. It is characterized by the free, mutual interpenetration of elements of a technical language, and the above-mentioned clear meandering between actual and virtual reality. This hybrid nature draws attention to the artists' discourse with the printing tradition and the process rudiments embedded in it. The realizations of Tomalski, Pomykała and Gajewski by looking „through” digital experiences are a perfect exemplification of building of a new awareness of the medium after the revolution which changed reality not only in the field of art, but in all our activities. This process is a part of a broader perspective of a return to the tactical and bodily awareness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]