Scanned_Image / 2015

The work “Scanned_Image” is a circuit of random technical events. Two scanners scan each other – each time in a different, random resolution and at a different point in time. Two webcams transmit the scanning process to the monitor, and the printer reproduces the image of the scanners’ encounter. An office lamp, which flickers along with the printing process, amplifies the visual noise. The last device in the chain is a shredder – you can take the produced image with you or destroy it immediately. Another element of the work is sound. Piezo and magnetic microphones attached to the technical devices collect the sounds and electrical fields they emit. The signals are amplified in different frequencies and intensities directly through twelve loudspeakers. Simultaneously, the sound is processed by software on the computer, which controls the office lights and creates a looping and feedback soundscape. The machines and devices operate in an independent, autonomous circuit, making the human factor obsolete. Humans can only take control by taking or destroying the resulting images of this automated process. However, the next image is always already in production. This materialization of images brings the process of remediation to another level. In the age of an overabundance of artificial images, it seems more interesting to focus on the underlying structure of their production than on their actual content. Therefore, the devices that were once called peripheral are now engaged in reciprocal communication, independently and self-sufficiently.

  Scanned_Image / 2x scanner, 2x webcam, computer, printer, shredder, 2x amp, 11x speaker, Arduino, sound card / 2015 

Scanned_Image / 2x scanner, 2x webcam / 2015

                                                                              Scanned_Image / LAB 30, Augsburg / 2015 

    Scanned_Image / 77 random prints / 2015

Hardware circuit project / Marcelina Wellmer

Scanned_Image / Pure Data / programming: Gösta Wellmer/ 2015