The de-aestheticized scanner deals with the representation of light
pollution in many art works or scientific studies. In many
of such works, light pollution is represented through a long
exposed image of a long shot at the skyline or city. Very
often, it looks nicer and aesthetical rather than a problem
that needs to be highlighted. The second object is a mobile
field survey tool that scans the light scape of an
environment, the result of this is done with a wireless
webcan embedded in the tool which does a slit scan. The
scanned image is then pixilated into color blocks in which
each block carries a number value of the light source. A
program is then activated to scan through each of these
pixel blocks and each value would then be translated into a
sound. Clicks represent dimmer lights and noise represents
bright lights. Silence represents darkness. The entire
soundscape would represent the light pollution level of an
area.