SCAN
audiovisual piece, stereo, 3:06 minutes
The work SCAN immerses the audience in a hypnotic journey with surrealistic forms and movements. The accompanying sound is defined through cutting, sharp glassy sounds and slippery, polished surfaces
with rhythmic tempi. SCAN emphasizes a snapshot of digital evolution.
Scanning is the process by which machines capture the real world. While this technique was invented to help people digitalize data quickly, scanning has increasingly become a double-edged sword as it has gotten out of hand. Today, humans become more and more transparent and screened by huge tech companies and governments. This leads to people mask off their laptop and smartphone face cameras to avoid being scanned in an unwanted way. The process of scanning becomes more threatening when used in the wrong hands or by flawed algorithms.
The work SCAN addresses these circumstances in an abstract way, combining classical elements like a scanning head traversing a surface with a moving data stream disappearing into nothingness.