Ana Anuschka Hofmann

The materiality, the mediality and the mass distribution of images are explored. The output image was an analogue photo of a block from the own picture archive. This photo was anatomically fragmented by digital manipulation. Subsequently, it was continued in various reproduction processes on other media, such as plotters, scanners, copiers, toners and then digitized again on the computer. The reproduction methods used include manual printing processes such as gravure (etching) on ​​soft ground or hard ground. In some cases, analogous interventions on the images were carried out. In this way, the output image could be continued endlessly in a different form. There is a constant "switching" between the different media. The images are changed, archived, recombined, transcribed, adapted, copied - similar to the processes on the Internet, where an image circulates freely. The image of the respective image, behaves metamorphic. It could also be symbolically compared with "morphing": in this process, a computer-generated special effect tries to create a realistic possible transition from a source image to a target image.