Field Recordings is an expressive and documentary project by the XYZ Collective – an art and design collective recording spatial imaginaries of the American South. This project aims to preserve digital traces of Louisiana’s disappearing landscapes through 3D scanning and 3D printing. By scanning heritage sites across the state – including ancient trees and burial grounds – we captured spatial and aural characters of these landscapes in high fidelity. Our data is archived online so that future generations can learn about these landscapes. Field Recordings explores how machine vision sees and unsees our cultural landscapes, rendering material traces immaterial. We experimented with how these immaterial virtual artifacts can be rematerialized through digital fabrication. This project investigates the authoritative, yet imperfect nature of data captured through the lens of machine vision, asking how algorithms mediate meaning.