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moCo (mobile Compressionism)

This just makes me smile: ‘action Jackson’ (Compressionist scanner / appendage) strapped onto my bling bling of a bike, ready to hit Johannesburg, South Africa (click for larger image).

Compressionism is a digital performance and analog archive. In the current studies, I compress bodies, spaces and objects by traversing their surfaces with an image scanner, along varying 3-dimensional paths – literally, I glide, run, hover and swoop across windows, trees, or lilies while the scanner head is in motion. The resulting digital images, which are transfigured down to the size of a small piece of paper, are then re-stretched to their original size, sometimes cropped or colorized. The final prints ask us to ‘look again’ at the relations between subjects, objects, actions and perceptions.

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Posted by nathaniel on Saturday, February 4, 2006, at 12:43 pm. Filed under Compressionism, art, art and tech, flickr, me, pop culture, south african art, stimulus, technology, uncategorical. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

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  1. networked_performance | 07 February 2006 at 6:20 pm | Permalink

    Compressionism…

    moCo (mobile Compressionism) [image: This just makes me smile: ‘action JacksonÂ’ (Compressionist scanner / appendage) strapped onto my bling bling of a bike, ready to hit Johannesburg, South Africa.] Compressionism is a digital performance and analog …