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Digitizing Digital: Andrea Longacre-White’s iPad Scans

Chris Gampat
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05/24/2013
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Andrea Longacre-White has created a photo project that won her a place in the ICP Triennial. She is a creative that has has many exhibitions, including the Tiny Vices Show. Her work has been featured in TimeOutNY and the NYTimes amongst others. While many of us shoot film and then scan it to digitize it, Andrea decided o digitize an already digital image. And she did this by scanning not a print out, but a digital screen. Her project involves scanning scenes that are displayed on an iPad–which in turn created visually interesting glitches.


Phoblographer: People choose to scan film all the time to digitize them. But scanning a digital image is something most people would say is impossible. Where did you get the thought to scan an iPad?

Andrea: When the iPad first came out I wanted it so badly, a super techno lust, though it took many months for me to get one. When I finally did, the use value had been built up in my mind which made it actually quite disappointing to realize the machine was really meant for consumption, not production.

I was like, now what do I do with this thing besides consume media?

I was in the process of making work for a show at West Street Gallery, and wanted to incorporate as source material the installation shots from past shows (trying to include, somehow, the history of a space in the work that would be shown in it). So I had the somewhat jokingly dumb idea of scanning the iPad while installation shots from different past shows from the gallery’s website were open in the internet browser window. The first time I scanned it, I had no idea that the two technologies would sort of talk to each other, one confusing the other and rendering the kind of glitches and in between spaces that are visible only through the scanning process. We can never see these in between spaces if we are looking at the iPad or going from page to page, its only through the scanner that this new strange space is revealed.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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