Taylor Horanson: Palimpest Series 3

  • ©2015, Taylor Horanson

Artist(s):


Title:


    Palimpest Series 3

Exhibition:


Creation Year:


    2015

Medium:


    DIY rotary scanner v1, Photoshop

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Artist Statement:


    Digital media is ageless, even though the equipment we use to produce it becomes obsolete more quickly each year. A dot-matrix printer is essentially useless in 2015, even though it represents a recent leap forward in technology. With Palimpsest, I created a hacked scanning device for the forensic analysis of the recently discarded tech. The resulting images reveal snippets of attempted communication from the recent past that appear ancient and mysterious.