Drawing Out: Marks, Machines, Material Worlds explores how familiar technologies can be used to record the world beyond human sight. Many devices already sense their surroundings through heat, movement, depth or magnetic fields, but these processes usually remain hidden inside the technology. The project experiments with these sensing abilities by placing scanners, smartphones, robotic machines and printers into unusual, unruly environments.
Rather than using technology for its intended purpose, the research repositions devices so they respond to environmental conditions such as heat, light, moisture and landscape. The images and traces produced are not pre-designed, but emerge from interactions between the device, the environment and the conditions in which they operate.
Through alternative forms of recording, documentation, exhibitions, talks and workshops, the project combines expanded photographic methods with playful technological misuse. It offers new ways of understanding how humans, machines and environments co-produce images and knowledge.
(image: Will Peck, Salt Drop Drawings (11))
