performative prints

Nathaniel Stern has developed a scanner/laptop/battery device that he uses to scan directly in the out of doors.

For my ongoing series of Compressionist prints, I strap a desktop scanner, laptop and custom-made battery pack to my body, and perform images into existence. I might scan in straight, long lines across tables, tie the scanner around my neck and swing over flowers, do pogo-like gestures over bricks, or just follow the wind over water lilies in a pond. The dynamism between the my body, technology and the landscape is transformed into beautiful and quirky renderings, which are then produced as archival art objects. Compressionism follows the trajectory of Impressionist painting, through Surrealism to Postmodernism, but rather than citing crises of representation, reality or simulation, my focus is on performing all three in relation to each other.