
Rain
- Publisher
- Jap Sam Books
- Year
- 2025
- ISBN
- 9789493329256
- Specifications
- Softcover, Japanese binding, six different covers
320 pages
23 x 31 cm
Text by Steven Humblet, Taco Hidde Bakker
Design by Mainstudio
Works with an altered form of the medium to gain a better understanding of the influence of the digital picture world around us: how we experience, know, judge and act in function of these pictures. The practice explores space for other ways of seeing in a world increasingly controlled by devices and algorithms, work emerging at the pivotal point of cooperation and struggle between humans and machines. A series arose from constantly pushing the possibilities of a device and its programme: office scanners were placed outdoors with their lamp turned off, so the programme became receptive to changing outdoor light. Eventually, the scanners started painting with the rain, giving it a direct voice in a digital world: an enigmatic collaboration between the unpredictability of nature and the controlled world of the device.