Using the RMIT printers I was really keen to give scanning photos a go and see what I’d end up with. At first I printed black and white images and played around with them, the really cool thing is that if you leave the scan settings on colour it creates a trippy rainbow burn sort of look around the spots that have been warped and I wish now that I had scanned all my black and white pics with the colour enabled.

After the first lot I printed out a few more pictures to use and found that moving the paper back and forward on the same axis that the scanner was moving along produced my preferred look as everything either gets stretched or sort of compressed. Moving the picture up and down instead created waves throughout the image which was cool too but more basic looking in my opinion. The second time round too I used bigger images that took up almost a whole A4 sheet and came out more rich and detailed.

I’d like to keep messing around with scanners and maybe get more of an idea of how to plan out how the scan is going to look with the aim of glitching or emphasising certain parts of the image. Experimenting with more black and white images in order to bring out the colour burn kind of look could be cool too, or even scanning a pre-glitched image. I might try and make a few gifs from scanned images too and see if I can get some movement or waves that move and develop in a continuous way.

I’ve included some more images that have been through Audacity too which was my favorite method of glitching photos until I tried the scanner.