Copies: Degeneration and integration

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Identity is constructed socially and, therefore, the eyes with which human beings look at themselves in front of the mirror contain a lens graduated with diopters that introduce the gazes of others into them. Not of any "other", but of their significant emotional ties. Those others give him back a performative image that the subject introjects and that remains anchored in him to the point of believing it to be part of his own nature. (Piastro 2019, 63)

From two lines of research, the degradation of the copy and the integration of the copy, proposing six exercises that aim to experiment through representation and graphic reproduction to reinterpret the concept of the copy and incorporate it as an element of construction of the identity

DEGENERATION_(1) Copy distorsion; (2) Copy mould, (3) Re-Codification;

INTEGRATRION_(4) Cardboard-me; (5) Consumer object; (6) Screens reproductions.

Before the assimilation of the digital world, identity was limited to the way in which our close environment perceived it. Our copy was not exposed to constant transformation or repetition because the number of viewers who watched it was limited. Now the environment has expanded to a world where we communicate digitally and globally.

Seriality surrounds us and constitutes us: brands that mass-produce copies, serial electronic devices, social networks that repeat content; we all end up being and consuming copies.

The glass or mirror, with its ability to reflect, is the perfect metaphor for the production of the selected work. As Umberto Eco claim: «As prostheses, mirrors are channels. A channel is any material medium that allows the passage of information (understood here in the physical sense, as the passage of quantitatively computable stimuli-signals, which still has nothing to do with semi-physical phenomena).» (Eco, 1985, 15)

— Raster, speed, power and resolution testing. Laser engraved methacrylate.

First large scale plate reproduction testing

— (Three) Printed original copies production process

The printed original is produced from carbonless papers using matrix printing. Carbonless “chemical” paper works by pressure when writing. By pressure, a chemical action is generated between the papers through micro capsules that makes each copy darken in a blue or black tone.