A project that explores AI-based photogrammetry at the point where precision begins to collapse into chaos, error, and hallucination.

What happens when we take a selfie with a 3D scanner? We are no longer projected cell by cell, pixel by pixel, onto the invisible two-dimensional screen that separates us from the phone. Instead, we must move. We must let ourselves be explored slowly, inch by inch, revealing the body and its interstices through rotation, exposure, and delay.
 

3D photography is not an instant image but a dynamic, empirical experience: a dance with light that depends on the imperfect intelligence of the device, which senses, interprets, reconstructs, and assembles our fragmented simulacrum.

But what happens when the device is deliberately pushed toward failure? What happens when chaos, imperfection, and glitch are no longer treated as defects, but as generative forces?
 

In one gesture, I begin by scanning my face in face mode, then introduce an inorganic object into the frame: something with unnatural color, an excessively perfect shape, something that clearly does not belong to nature. A plastic fragment, a salvaged scrap, an alien presence extracted from waste.

The software cannot fully interpret this intrusion. It fails to integrate the object into the logic of the scan, and begins instead to generate improbable digital fusions, almost Cronenbergian in their material ambiguity, as if the algorithm had stopped recording and started dreaming.
 

These unstable agglomerations of pixels and color are then transferred into 3D software, lit with virtual light, coated with a porcelain-like digital skin, and rendered within a metaphysical visual space. What begins as an act of scanning ends as a distorted self-portrait, suspended between machine vision, mutation, and dream.

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Shows
Share Festival, Turin - 2021
 

Credits
Concept, art direction, animation, editing - Francesca Fini
Sound design - Francesca Fini