June 5-11 2024, Re-Fest, Culture Hub, NYC and online.
Scans is a high-frequency poetic analysis of the connection between digital screens, scams and hypochondria.
Through a series of color fields, images, sound and text, the video is a fever dream of optical illusions, x ray scans and advertisements.
The video mixes images and colors through a simple, but novel idea: rather than creating colors by mixing multiple colored light sources as a screen normally would, the video rapidly alternates between multiple different colors in a high frequency (60 hertz). This results in a dizzying effect that mixes two or more colors over time to create a new color – thus creating colors that never appear in the actual video frames, but only exist in the viewer’s perception.
Scans is a continuation of my explorations into the most basic and often overlooked elements that constitute our contemporary technological culture, such as the pixel, perspective drawing, shipping etc. In Scans I investigate the 60 hertz refresh rate that most screens – such as iPhones – deliver. This frequency is the basis for most digital screens, and therefore at the very core of digital content. Due to its very fast pace, it is impossible to distinguish any single frame from another, and the content is only visible in the fast-paced stream of imagery, and ultimately, within the viewer itself.