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“The labyrinthine path of the ScanLAB mobile unit through the City of London is modeled as a straight line. Norman Foster’s ‘‘Gherkin’’ building appears twice because the unit drove past it twice, producing a kind of scanner Cubism.”

Geoff Manaugh: The Dream Life of Driverless Cars - The New York Times

ScanLAB’s project suggests that humans are not the only things now sensing and experiencing the modern landscape — that something else is here, with an altogether different, and fundamentally inhuman, perspective on the built environment. If the conceptual premise of the Romantic Movement can somewhat hastily be described as the experience and documentation of extreme landscapes — as an art of remote mountain peaks, abyssal river valleys and vast tracts of uninhabited land — then ScanLAB is suggesting that a new kind of Romanticism is emerging through the sensing packages of autonomous machines. While artists once traveled great distances to see sights of sublimity and grandeur, equally wondrous and unsettling scenes can now be found within the means of travel itself. As we peer into the algorithmic dreams of these vehicles, we are perhaps also being given the first glimpse of what’s to come when they awake.