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ScanOps |
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2012 |
Description |
A series of prints in which errors in the scanning process are visible. Sometimes these are glitches that result in a distorted image, but often the images include the presence of the ScanOps through their hands wearing vinyl protections for fingers. The title of each photograph is simply the title of the book accompanied by the page number. Photograph are shown inside of hand-painted frames, which color is sampled from the picture. In this way, framing becomes both a material form of hand-labor that relate to the pictures and a conceptual presentation of these. |
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Artist's Statement |
It didn’t feel right to just publish them on a blog. I wanted to rematerialise them as a book and as framed prints. […] But I'm just looking at the signs of labour that produced the scans. […] We see their hands in detail, but don't know who they are, what their stories are and how they go about their job. I take those images and turn them into art objects. I am OK with that as a problematic condition of their existence. |
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Related Article |
“The Artful Accidents of Google Books” by Kenneth Goldsmith, The New Yorker, December 4, 2013. |
Keywords |
access, appropriation, bookness, collection, control, digital, hybrid, labor, library, materiality, photography, preservation, surveillance |
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1946 |