Status
Status:: Terminada
OB_003_Degenerative Print and Scanner
1. Operation Data
Internal number: OB_003
Operational regime: Capture and Materialization
Source image: Photograph taken from life
Operational description:
Print an image, then scan the print, repeat the process.
2. Tools and Procedure
Tools / medium:
- iPhone 12 front camera
- Epson WorkForce printer and scanner
- 2018 Macbook Pro
Technical procedure:
- Take photo
- Scan
- Repeat the scanning and printing cycle to produce progressive degradation.
3. Variables
Controlled variables:
- Resolution and file format
- Sheet position for scanning and printing
- Ink
- Paper type
- My printer is hacked, the ink cartridges are not locked.
Uncontrolled / accidental variables:
- Printing errors
- My printer cartridge is bad, the yellow does not work well
4. Visual Sequence
Initial image
Step 01
Step 02
Step 03
Step 04
Step 05
Step 06
Step 07
Step 08
Step 09
Step 10
Step 11
5. Visual Selection
Crisis / threshold according to AI-assisted reading / ChatGPT
Crisis / threshold according to my perception
6. Crisis and Formal-Perceptual Reading
Main crisis: legibility
The operation affects the visual grammar of the image: shape, contour, color, figure/ground relationship, legibility, recognition, and support.
Shape / contour / figure-ground:
The figure gradually loses legibility, contour, and its relationship with the ground.
Color / tone:
The color transforms toward a cold blue, perhaps due to the predominant color of the image.
Legibility / recognition:
A white veil appears over the image.
Material / support:
Material and support do not change.
Perceptual effect:
Gradually loses legibility; the image becomes smaller with each scan and begins to shift.
7. Final Evaluation and Artistic Reference
Question for the operation:
Does this operation truly put the image into crisis, or does it function merely as an aesthetic effect?
Yes, Crisis.
Operation notes / what I learned:
The image tends to shrink and shift upward to the right.
Final_status:
Works:: SI
How it destroys the image:
Works_on:: Formal
Level and Richness of crisis:
Crisis:: Baja
Decision:
Selection:: Combinable / Guardar
Possible Artistic Reference
Referent:: Silke Otto-Knapp, Armando Reveron
Possible works:
- Silke Otto-Knapp — Seascape, 2008
- Armando Reverón — white period
Possible Artistic Reference
Referent:
Uta Barth — _Ground 42_, 1994
Out-of-focus image
Wolfgang Tillmans — Lighter, 2005–2008
the veil left with the blue background resembles Tillmans’ work due to its color and abstraction
James Welling — Glass House, 2006–2009
Image with color shifted more toward an RGB displacement operation, but it also has this veil
Silke Otto-Knapp — Seascape, 2008
Has something of the image’s aesthetic.
Armando Reverón — white period
Operational relationship:
The repetition of the print and scan cycle introduces displacement, scale loss, veiling, and cumulative chromatic alterations. The operation works on the material degradation of the reproduced image.