Tasteless Influenza is an audacious flatbed scannography project that fractures the boundaries between digital art and exploitation. Using the cold, clinical surface of an Epson scanner, the artist transforms the motion of an adult video into an explosive, chaotic image — a shattered pixelated reflection of intimacy twisted and commodified.
It’s not just a visual exploration; it’s a reclamation of what has been sold, packaged, and consumed.
By laying the video directly on the scanner glass, the artist shatters the routine of passive consumption, creating a kaleidoscopic distortion that subverts the very essence of digital intimacy. The once polished, linear narratives are now fractured and fragmented, echoing the tension between personal moments and their commodification. “Tasteless Influenza” is a visceral challenge to the modern-day marketplace of intimacy, calling attention to the violence of exploitation in digital spaces.
Through this deconstruction, the work forces a reconsideration of our most private exchanges, revealing how the sale of intimacy can be repurposed and re-empowered. It strips away the commercial gloss, presenting a more raw, personal narrative beneath the surface. What was once owned, monetized, and objectified is now a new kind of defiant self-expression.