Replacement Character plotter-scanner

2026 Onassis ONX Award Winner

Luke Shannon

Replacement Character plotter-scanner is an interactive kinetic sculpture that combines a modified document scanner with a custom-built plotter to create life-sized scans of its participants. Drawing on the history of mechanical reproduction, Shannon considers what it means to be seen in an age of fragmented online identities, surveillance, and increasingly intelligent machines. The work turns the familiar act of scanning into a reflection on how technologies capture, interpret, and reconstruct our image.