Teageneration (or: why I don’t trust transporters) (2016)

This is like a physical version of "I Am Sitting In A Room" [0], a classic work of experimental music. In that piece, Alvin Lucier speaks the words "I am sitting in a room different from the the one you are in now..." into a recorder, which is then played back into another recorder, on and on until it becomes unintelligible.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAxHlLK3Oyk

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_loss

Whatever scanner they used, it seems terrible for the purpose of scanning teapots.

I suppose a 3d-printed object could carry a (steganographic?) copy of its own specification, so you could replicate it endlessly without degeneration.

It's a bit different scanning a teapot to scanning a human - it may be the case that the built-in ability for humans to self-repair could carry the day, even granting that generation loss is an unavoidable thing for teleporters. Interesting artwork though!