How do we realise the essence of a thing when all things are produced to be cannibalised by their own image? In this mathematical trace or index lies the seed of communication, a new language of coloured pixels instantly communicable through the email network. The domestic scanner and workstation presents an opportunity to disrupt the present hegemony of images, to test the limits of systems and programs by devising new methods and languages of inter-human communication. In essence art as communication… Scan and send.