Discovery08
A great party at NEMO. There was an unfortunate mixup with the videos for my 20PK presentation, but no big deal. Just in case, you can see the slideshow and the videos here:
Slideshow (.pps)
Video1 (.mpg 20MB)
Video2 (.mpg 20MB)
Discovery08 26th of September in Nemo, Amsterdam
“…The following step was to ask somebody else to wear the device and to use scientific methods to reconstruct the visual perception of the other. This video material was first presented in Amsterdam in a show entitled “Saccadic Sightings: Ophelia” in 2009, accompanied by photographs of the same visuals. In the single-channel video projected in a dark room, a viewer was confronted with the uncanny feeling that stems from the sensation of entering someone’s intimate world. In this work, one becomes a woman who runs through the fields, picks flowers, lets them float in a nearby spring, and then abruptly wakes up at the end of this dream-like sequence.”
Vesna Madzoski, “Black Hole of Vision: On Rune Peitersen’s Saccadic Sightings”, Rhizome.org
Ophelia
DVD-PAL, 3:04 min., no sound, 2009
“…The first series of photographs entitled Homunculus (2009) was Peitersen’s first step in working with the visual results. Here, the green-gray images of the scenes recorded while wearing Mobile Eye are overlapped by an image of the all-observing eye. In naming his first series “Homunculus” – a term used in scientific research to designate “the little man inside the brain” – we can read Peitersen’s desire not to stop at that point of investigation, seduced by the hallucinatory nature of the images. Instead, he had decided to continue further with questioning the contemporary definitions of how this little man sees and how this interpretation is shaped by the culture…”
Vesna Madzoski, “Black Hole of Vision: On Rune Peitersen’s Saccadic Sightings”, Rhizome.org
HOMUNCULUS (2009)
De eerste serie uit het project Saccadic Sightings is een serie foto’s van 30 bij 40 centimeter groot. Elke foto is op dezelfde manier opgebouwd maar met een ander tafereel. Een oogbol is glazig weergegeven en lijkt zo transparant en fragiel zoals echte ogen zijn. Door de prominente plek van de iris en de pupil in de foto vraagt je je af of jij degene bent die observeert, of juist geobserveerd wordt.
In iedere foto ligt er een andere scène achter het oog. Soms abstract, soms herkenbaar als de kranen van een bouwplaats of de bomen in een park. Doordat Rune Peitersen twee filters over elkaar projecteert, voelt het alsof we kijken naar de wereld die zich als het ware achter de pupil bevindt.
We zijn getuige van het beeld in het hoofd van de kunstenaar. Het werk heeft betrekking op wanneer men fantaseert, of wanneer men zich iets indenkt. Want wie of wat ‘ziet’ het beeld dat zich in ons hoofd bevindt? Is er iets aanwezig dat onze imaginaire beel-den observeert? Deze vraagstukken, bekend als het ‘homunculus probleem’, zijn door Rune Peitersen getransformeerd in deze fotografische serie.
Like the picture of the old woman who turns into a young lady depending on your focus, my works play with the expectations and preconceptions of the viewer by mixing genres, points of reference and conceptual models. Technically, this often entails capturing an everyday situation on video and transforming it to the point of being barely recognizable. The transformation itself and how this is achieved plays an important part in my work process. E.g. it can be done through a process of physical or digital distortion or omission, or by cut ‘n pasting the imagery onto itself until it gains a new meaning. The important thing is that the viewer is constantly forced to switch between thinking he knows what he sees and being confused and unable to comprehend the imagery.
In recent works I have started looking into the way our vision works, and used this as a starting point for transforming imagery. For instance, in the video installation Peripheral Panorama, I walked through The Hague with two cameras filming not straight forward, but to the sides at an angle corresponding with my peripheral vision. This footage was filtered to eliminate detail and enhance contrast and movement. It was synchronized and projected onto two screens at the same angle as it was recorded, in effect giving a walk-through of The Hague as my peripheral vision would have ‘seen’ it.
Saccadic Sightings deals, in a somewhat similar way, with the saccadic movements of the eyes. I want to incorporate these movements into video footage to try to create a representation of the input the eye receives from its surroundings – capture the ‘raw’ footage as it were, before the input is processed.
In relation to my previous works, the movements will act as the transformation. By their very nature the movements should seem recognizable to the viewer, but the fragmented imagery of the ‘unprocessed’ footage will be confusing and very difficult to fully comprehend – strange, yet familiar. I plan to construct a similarly fragmented narrative around the footage, creating a dream-like, association-driven video(-installation).
The Arts & Genomics Centre – Anne Kienhuis
Early on in the project I contacted TAGC and have since received tremendous support from the centre and Anne Kienhuis in particular. It is safe to say that without the support of TAGC this project wouldn’t have been possible.
www.artsgenomics.org
Stephen Oliver Associates – Stephen Oliver
Generous supplier of the MobileEye and financial support of my participation in the CHArt Conference and Discovery08
www.s-oliver-associates.com
www.eyetracker.co.uk
Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience – Prof. Roelfsema, Prof. Kamermans
One of the first things Anne Kienhuis arranged for me was a meeting with Prof. Roelfsema and Kamermans. These meetings were very informative and provided an excellent starting point for the project.
http://www.nin.knaw.nl/~kamermans/
http://www.nin.knaw.nl/viscog/
http://www.nin.knaw.nl/
Discovery08
At the Discovery08 party 26th Sep. 2008, the first video of the project, Encounters, will be screened, and I will be giving a brief introduction to the project and the MobileEye.
http://www.discovery08.nl
CHArt – Computers and the History of Art
At the CHArt twentyfourth annual conference entitled “Seeing – Vision and Perception in a Digital Culture”, London, Nov. 6-7 2008, I’ll be presenting a paper on the project.
http://www.chart.ac.uk/
Fonds BKVB – The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture
Funding for the Mini Symposium
Support and assistance during filming
Akos Maroy
Peter Vos
Jennifer Willet
Sanja Medic
Camilla Eliasen
Joeri Verasdonck
Research
Saccadic masking – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Saccadic Search Home Page
Saccade – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eye movement – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The saccadic system
A theory of visual stability across saccadic eye movements
The Neurobiology of Saccadic Eye Movements – Elsevier
Visual representations during saccadic eye movements
What is an image and what is image power? by Dirk J Van Den Berg
Body Mechanics
WOEXT: 56 – Saccadic eye movements
Slide Show: B1-1
The Saccadic Search Home Page
SOLVING THE “REAL” MYSTERIES OF VISUAL PERCEPTION:
A sensorimotor account of vision and visual consciousness
Cognitive and Vision Science
Dr. Susan Blackmore
Paul Coates reviews Is The Visual World a Grand Illusion? Edited by Alva Noe
Intro and Overview/Screenshots – Vision Egg
Human and Computer Vision Lab
The new age of ignorance | Review | The Observer
Arts & Genomics
Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
Retinal Signal Processing
Vision and Cognition
Dutch Neurofederation agenda listing
Neurometrics Home Page
Feng-GUI – Feng Shui for Graphic User InterfacesProjects
Webvision: Color Perception
Heiko Neumann – Vision Science Lab at Ulm University
Computer Vision Based Human-Computer Interaction
handprint : basic forms of color
handprint : light and the eye
Bioastronautics Data Book Chapter 17–Vision
NASA Vision Group – Projects
Webvision: Color Vision. by Peter Gouras
Color Vision
DIY Calculator :: Color Vision: One of Nature’s Wonders
Visual Distance Perception and Depth Perception
The homunculus problem (idea)@Everything2.com
Representational theory of mind – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Direct realism – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Representative realism – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mary Hayhoe
viscog.com home
ISCANHomeFrame
CHArt – Computers and the History of Art Group
FabLab.nl
CO-OP’s Exploring new territories in art and science
Art(ists)
Artists who tried out the MobileEye
CHArt