Document:Q11959
From Rhizome Artbase
ScanOps is (or was) the internal department name for Google’s onsite book scanning contractors. The ScanOps project is based on Google Books images in which software distortions, the scanning site, and the hands of ScanOps employees are visible. Through varied analog presentations of these images, the technologies and processes used are emphasized. These re-materializations are treated as photography— taking the form of framed image-sculptures, compiled in a mobile book-sculpture, and presented in a performance-lecture.
An extension of my Workers Leaving the Googleplex project - http://andrewnormanwilson.com/portfolios/70411-workers-leaving-the-googleplex