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CO‘Backscatter Blueprint’ print series by Noelle Mason @nonomason
Backscatter Blueprint is about the use of machine vision in the control of international borders and how material changes and scale can affect the meaning of the images produced.
The historical uses of cyanotype in both taxonomy and the reproduction of architectural plans resonates with the authoritative elevation-like imagery that the backscatter machine produces, images that reveal a jarring tension between the rationalized mechanical grid of the trucks and the fragile bodies of their human cargo. The scale changes and physicalization of these images promote an intimacy that the native viewing experience in which they are typically produced for denies, separating these images from the screen gives them body and space to be viewed outside of their original context, of hunter and hunted.
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