I am interested in emulating and visualizing the way our senses work. By presenting a ‘video’ version of the peripheral vision, emphasis is put on the discrepancy between how visual information enters our brain and how we (our brain) presents that information to us. There is an apparent ‘misunderstanding’ in our understanding of how we percieve the world. Not only is it impossible to talk of an objective world ‘out there’ to be sensed, but even if it were so, we still wouldn’t be able to ‘see’ it through anything but the filters of our brain. Basically, what that comes down to is, that the world as we know it is a neurological construction and that, when we sense, we sense a neurological projection triggered by stimuli principally unknown to us.
This also means that when we see, we do not see through our eyes like we see through a pair of binoculars, rather the eyes and the visual cortex make up the visual sensation of seeing. In its extreme this means that what we see is the world – no matter if no one else sees it like we do.
In the Panorama, the brain is taken out of the perceptional equation so that the viewer gets an impaired (or, more accurate) image of how our perception works.
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