more Compressionism

New images, video and text (including Manifesto-like "rules" for
Compressionist works) are up at http://Compressionism.net

I think the most exciting bit is probably the new video, with some
great footage of "action Jackson" and my Compression methods - he's a
custom-made, battery-operated and fully portable appendage for 360-
degree Compressionist scans.

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 - I literally 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.

http://compressionism.net

related: Check out the Boing Boing post @ http://www.boingboing.net/
2006/01/19/turning_scanners_int.html about Mike Golembewski's
scanner photography. Basically, he's turned his scanner into a (very)
large format pinhole camera- beautiful stuff!

nathaniel
http://nathanielstern.com