scanography

Homework #7 (1) Produce a number of 12 scans with 3 interesting materials or material groups. Let your creativity be your guide. Publish your scans on the blog one image after the next. Add a paragraph of description reflecting the specific outcome and your choices.  2) Create a blog post in which you reflect on the medium of scanning as such: think of our discussion in class, record your experiences, describe what scanning can do for an artist, how it can serve as a bridge between photography, traditional printing techniques, and digital printing. As you compare scanning to traditional printing techniques; visit the printing studio, think of a photography etc. to make additional comparisons.

This was the first time I worked with a scanner in an artful way and must say that it was a truly insightful experience. I knew from the research I did that scanners made it possible to make art in a way I had never thought of before, yet something about physically working with the scanner opened my mind to a new way of thinking. It is remarkable that scanners work like cameras with slow shutter speeds, I am amazed at what they are capable of capturing and they ways they can be manipulated.

Below are three series of scanography that I experimented with.

Water Bottle

Leafs

iphone with flashlight

I picked these 3 series because they most exemplified the manipulation that can be done using a scanner, and they were the most aesthetically enticing. The leaf series shows how if you move an object on the scanner while it is scanning the form will be captured differently then if it is left alone. The water bottle series explores the same manipulation with the addition of water which has a very reflective quality. Lastly the iphone series experiments with light and how the scanner reacts to light while scanning. I had many more images in each series but chose to post the most intriguing images.