iPhone Panorama refers to the panorama shooting function on an iPhone, used to scan a scene horizontally and record a wide field of view as a single image. In the provided context, it is treated not merely as a convenient camera feature, but as an apparatus that produces a “panoramic” mode of vision. Such vision can capture a landscape as a continuous expanse, yet it may also introduce distortion, loss of information, and a flattening of space depending on the movement and speed of the scan.
In Kevin Abosch and Richard Pleuger’s series True Transformers, the iPhone panorama function is deliberately broken. A real car is photographed, but the scanning error transforms it into another form. The camera is still aimed at an actual object, but the act of recording is intentionally disrupted. Through this distortion, the work attempts to draw out the object’s “true form” in a different way. In this sense, iPhone Panorama functions both as a tool for documenting reality and as a means of unsettling perception and truth through error and deformation.
The surrounding discussion also links panoramic vision to a broader digital condition in which computational processing pushes visual experience into another dimension, reinterpreting image data as a volumetric body and quietly dissolving the order of space and time. However, the available context does not provide a full technical or historical account of the iPhone feature itself, so this entry is limited to its use in the cited artworks and theoretical framing.