Scanned Objects und / and Scanned Sculptures

For the series Scanned Objects, Peter Weibel sawed everyday objects – armchairs, doors, suitcases, TV sets, suitcases, entire library walls, and even, purely photographically, skyscrapers – into a multitude of horizontal strips, which he then reassembled shifted and skewed with Plexiglas panes between the strips. Because the strips are uniformly cut and distributed the ordinary object is represented as a calculable body in space. In this series of works, principles of the media, such as the resolution of the TV image into scan lines, are transferred or translated back into the world of objects, thus turning the principles of the digital scanning process back into the analog. As early as the 1990s, Peter Weibel thus anticipated the principle of 3D printing technology. 

The Scanned Sculptures are a continuation of this process. They are based on digital 3D models of well-known art works, freely available on the Internet, and expand the approximation of digital and analog works. Weibel thus interrogates the status of the work of art in the age of digital production.