Scroll Scans is an experimental photographic project that deconstructs our relationship with digital content consumption. By scanning a smartphone screen as it automatically scrolls, the resulting images reveal a chaotic abstraction of algorithm-driven content, referring to what Shannon and Weaver call noise, annihilating the intentional communication process. By visually exposing its hidden nature, Scroll Scans exposes the virtual echo chambers and dismantles the illusion of choice created by this imposed content’s flow. Here, deconstruction becomes both a method and a message: a way to reflect on the systems shaping not only our visual economy, but also our digital and physical identities.

Through this poetic collapse, the resulting glitch aesthetic of these images becomes a by-product of the medium itself, offering a form of visual truth-telling. These are not digital manipulations, but manipulations of the digital. By subverting the screen’s authority, the project invites viewers to abandon their passive, non-consensual consumption, and ultimately to reclaim agency.