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Volume 2, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 2632-2463
  • E-ISSN: 2632-2471

Abstract

This article discusses , an environmental media project that explores the possibility of defamiliarizing representational structures of nature through creative practice techniques. Through a reflective, critical analysis of , this article examines how the 3D scanning process, used at the threshold of viability, can illuminate the fragile conditions of data and the complexities of photographic representation. I argue that movements from the plane of environmental forces and forms into a digital materiality carries meaning in addition to signifying practices. This article suggests that viewing environmental photomedia through the lens of posthumanism and materialist philosophy offers the possibility of opening up more-than-representational meanings within materialities, processes, practices and art encounters.

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Keyword(s): 3D modeling; 3D scanning; glitch; photomedia; plants; representation
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