{"id":1059,"date":"2006-02-04T12:43:51","date_gmt":"2006-02-04T10:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/04\/moco-mobile-compressionism-3\/"},"modified":"2006-04-12T07:14:38","modified_gmt":"2006-04-12T05:14:38","slug":"moco-mobile-compressionism-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/04\/moco-mobile-compressionism-3\/","title":{"rendered":"moCo (mobile Compressionism)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 6px; margin-bottom: 4px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nathanielstern\/95215765\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/26\/95215765_44e2f49e76_m.jpg?w=850\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);\" \/><\/a><br \/> <small><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nathanielstern\/95215765\/\">moCo (mobile Compressionism)<\/a><\/small><\/div>\n<p>This just makes me smile: &#8216;action Jackson&#8217; (Compressionist scanner \/ appendage) strapped onto my bling bling of a bike, ready to hit Johannesburg, South Africa (click for larger image).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/compressionism.net\">Compressionism<\/a> 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 &#8211; 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 &#8216;look again&#8217; at the relations between subjects, objects, actions and perceptions.<\/p>\n<p>more at <a href=\"http:\/\/compressionism.net\">Compressionism.net<\/a><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>moCo (mobile Compressionism) This just makes me smile: &#8216;action Jackson&#8217; (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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3,26,24,7,9,2,19,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-compressionism","category-flickr","category-me","category-pop-culture","category-south-african-art","category-stimulus","category-technology","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-h5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1032,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/22\/more-compressionism\/","url_meta":{"origin":1059,"position":0},"title":"more Compressionism","author":"nathaniel","date":"22 January 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"digital performance, analog archive","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1985,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/24\/more-compressionism-plus-bonus-life-and-art-details-in-short-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":1059,"position":1},"title":"More Compressionism, plus bonus life and art details (in short review)","author":"nathaniel","date":"24 July 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Wow. I almost forgot I had a blog. It's been a while, hasn't it? I've been working on a whole lot of art. 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