Interview by Jenny Wilson from the publication Mmm, Mohr Mohr Mohr, accompanying the exhibition As Art As Can Be in De Vishal Haarlem 2014. JW: Your work in this exhibition is in a sense about looking at looking. You employ an almost scientific method of … Continue reading2015 | Interview | As Art As Can Be
27 september t/m 26 oktober Deze tentoonstelling legt de nadruk op de relaties tussen de beschouwer en het kunstwerk en daarmee indirect ook op de relatie tussen beschouwer en kunstenaar. Hoe nemen wij kunstwerken waar en waar maken zij ons bewust van? Wat is het … Continue reading2014 | AS ART AS CAN BE | De Vishal
Presentatie tijdens de Raaijmakersavond in Perdu, www.perdu.nl, 25 oktober 2013. Lees hier meer over het Raaijmakersproject van tijdschrift Terras. In ‘Het kleinste geluid‘ vertelt Raaijmakers over het zoeken naar een ‘dode toon’. Hij omschrijft het als een streven naar een absoluut punt waar, zoals in … Continue reading2013 | Nulpunt – Raaijmakersavond in Perdu
Lees hier mijn lezing http://www.perdu.nl/agenda/604/dick_raaijmakers_en_de_kunst_van_het_machine_lezen_-_revisited.html Voortzetting van de Raaijmakers-reeks. In 2012 organiseerde Perdu in samenwerking met tijdschrift Terras een avond over ‘De kunst van het machine lezen’, een essay van Dick Raaijmakers dat in 1978 in Raster #6 werd gepubliceerd. Deze avond borduurt hierop voort, … Continue reading2013 | Dick Raaijmakers en De kunst van het machine lezen- revisited | Perdu
Lawrence Weschler, True to Life. Twenty-five years of conversation with David Hockney, University of California Press 2008 p. 4 “I mean, for instance, wide-angle lenses!” Hockney exclaimed as we stood that afternoon on the deck overlooking his pool. “after a while I bought a better … Continue reading2013 | Lawrence Weschler -on David Hockney
Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin, Wiley-Academy 2005 p.21 The technologically expanded and strengthened eye today penetrates deep into matter and space, and enables man to cast a simultaneous look on the opposite sides of the globe. The experiences of space and time have … Continue reading2013 | Juhani Pallasmaa
24 nov 2012 – 12 jan 2013
Jill Baroff (USA) / Daniel Gustav Cramer (D) / Bill Drummond (GB) / Hamish Fulton (GB) / Eric Hattan (CH)
Dunja Herzog (CH) / Rune Peitersen (DK) / Alexander Schellow (D) / Charlotte Seidel (D) / Alexia Turlin (CH)
Curator : Isaline Vuille … Continue reading2012 | BALISES | Piano Nobile Geneve
PERSBERICHT DARKROOM: Op 20 oktober om 18.00 zullen 14 kunstenaars afdalen in complete duisternis in een ondergrondse nucleaire schuilkelder op de oude dokken in Gent. De kunstenaars en de wetenschappers willen nagaan wat het effect is van de duisternis op de creatie en het bewustzijn. … Continue reading2012 | DARKROOM | Ghent
Rune Peitersen, Martijn Schuppers, Rein Jelle Terpstra en Roland Schimmel Looking at Seeing Although the artist and the scientist approach observation in different ways, in both fields the process of observing and the role of the observer play and important part. How much of what … Continue reading2012 | Looking at Seeing | Minerva
With every visual experience, a great number of areas are activated in your brain. When you see something for the first time, new connections are made between the cells in your brain. Your brain makes the new experience comprehensible by connecting it with existing cell connections. … Continue reading2012 | True Focus (ENG)
True Focus is geschreven voor Het Nestboek, een publicatie naar aanleiding van het vier-jarig bestaan van Nest (https://shop.nestruimte.nl/nl/shop/het-nestboekthe-nestbook/) To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity … Continue reading2012 | True Focus (NL)
Looking Out is a 3 channel video installation, consisting of one video of unaltered eyetracking-footage and two videos in which the tracking-data has been used to visualize respectively a ‘homunculus’-view and a composite view. Click here for installation views.
A Tree in The Forest is a combination of works from the Observer Effect and the Observing Uncertainty series. 5 large prints from the third Observing Uncertainty series show the eyetracking-data superimposed unto single frames. The same data was used to create a large Observer … Continue reading2011 | A Tree in The Forest
In Manifest Gaze the eyetracking-data of at least 20 minutes is superimposed unto a single still-frame. Strange circular patterns appear in the scatter-charts when enough data is used. Click here for installation views.
Looking at Seeing is the 3rd series of works in the Observer Effect series. Once more the eyetracking-data is used to create a visual impression of ‘seeing’. Each photo consists of between 800-2000 frame cut-outs, app. 30-60 seconds of footage. Click here for installation views.
Einstein & Bohr is a series that combines a large Observing Uncertainty print with the corresponding Observer Effect sequence. They are made to match each other in size to suggest complementarity. This text was written for the exhibition Saccadic Sightings: Einstein & Bohr. The text … Continue reading2011 | Einstein & Bohr
“I have remembrances of yours I have longed long to redeliver” A video installation with works of Mark Jeffery, Judd Morrissey and Rune Peitersen
The retinal image is an image in a mathematical sense; it is a projection or a mapping. The retinal image is not an image in the sense of picture – or, if it is, this is entirely accidental. How it looks, or how it reads, … Continue reading2011 | Looking at Seeing | Ellen de Bruijne Projects
On Saturday July 21st the event ‘Looking at Seeing’ took place in the gallery. Amidst the exhibition a number of invited artists spoke about their work, inspiration and ideas. The starting-point was a question posed by me on what it means ‘to see’. The talks … Continue reading2011 | Looking at Seeing | Ellen de Bruijne Projects
http://metropolism.com/reviews/3-x-zomer-in-amsterdam/ Ellen de Bruijne Projects Summer program: Rune Peitersen and others Summer paintings II: Gerard Kodde 16 juli – 20 augustus Gerard Kodde Rune Peitersen In de expositieruimte van Ellen de Bruijne Projects hangen Rune Peitersens gemanipuleerde foto’s. Peitersen bewerkte talloze grote en kleine foto’s … Continue reading2011 | Metropolis M – 3 x zomer in Amsterdam
http://moussemagazine.it/rune-peitersen-looking-at-seeing-at-ellen-de-bruijne-projects-amsterdam/ At Ellen de Bruijne Projects is currently on view the 3rd and final installment of Rune Peitersen’s project, Saccadic Sightings. Last year’s presentation was focused on the relation between art and science, and the position of these two disciplines in relation to our ideas … Continue reading2011 | Mousse Contemporary Art Magazine – Rune Peitersen “Looking at Seeing” at Ellen de Bruijne Projects
Peitersen presenteert verschillende plaatjes en die bestaan niet in ons hoofd. Hij componeert en suggereert – Saccadic eye movements bestaan, ‘Saccadic Sightings’ niet – … Continue reading2011 | False Focus | Saskia Monshouwer
Alva Noë, Out of our heads. Why you are not your brain, and other lessons from the biology of consciousness, Hill and Wang 2009 p. 133-134 Matters are made worse by the fact that the eyes move almost continuously. Several times a second they jitter … Continue reading2011 | Alva Noë
If I looked through another person’s eyes, would I see the same as that person? If I could construct a device to record the view in front of me, a miniature camera I could wear without noticing, and if I could simultaneously track the movement … Continue reading2011 | Saccadic Sightings Statement
False Focus is based on the idea that our senses and they way they are translated by the brain into an image of reality does not provide us with a reliable idea of reality.
For The artists of False Focus the senses and its translations are reason to provide us with alternative realities, manifested in video’s, photo’s, paintings and installations. … Continue reading2011 | False Focus | Nest
0:46 min. (loop), no sound, 2011 A piece of the original MobileEye tracking footage. Also part of the video installation Looking Out
Einstein quoted for saying “most people only use 10% of their brain” Semantic deconstruction: ‘You’ in opposition to ‘brain’ (Cartesian duality, mind over matter). Brain becomes a tool implying ‘you’ is superior, when in fact it is more likely to be the other way round, … Continue reading2011 | You only use 10% of your brain myth
At the start of any investigation, artistic or otherwise, it is important to first look at the conceptual foundation of that, which one wishes to investigate. If I wish to investigate the way the eye works, it is essential that I not only look … Continue reading2010 | Superstition
The author (Kimberly Zeluck) gives a nice description of her (online) encounter with the works from ‘Einstein & Bohr’. http://mixmouse.net/blog/?p=6 Rune Peiterson: Digital as Tool Rune Peiterson’s “Saccadic Sightings: Einstein and Bohr”, accessed through Rhizome, is definitely an illustration of the usage of digital technology … Continue reading2010 | Rune Peitersen: Digital as Tool
“Descartes’ famous “cogito” — I think, therefore I am” — is profoundly mistaken, according to Damasio. Thinking is a late evolutionary development. Long before there was thought, there was feeling; and we are still primarily feeling organisms. The same mistaken idea underlies the currently fashionable … Continue reading2010 | Antonio Damasio
‘Observing Uncertainty – A Tree in the Forest’ is part of a larger series of work. Click here to see the whole series. The images of ‘Observing Uncertainty’ are stills from the MobileEye recordings. Superimposed on the single frame is the eyetracking data from the … Continue reading2010 | Observing Uncertainty – A Tree in the Forest
Observer Effect: A Tree in the Forest, 220x 20×15 cm c-prints on dibon, 400×165 cm (variable) Observer Effect: A Tree in the Forest is part of a larger series of work. Click here to see the whole series. In the series ‘Observer Effect’ I use … Continue reading2010 | Observer Effect – A Tree in the Forest
If our eyes were to be turned into a camera, it would be a rather poor device. More precisely, it would not resemble a single-frame snapshot camera, but a video stream of a mostly blurred visual field with only spots of clarity. … Continue reading2010 | Black Hole of Vision: On Rune Peitersen’s Saccadic Sightings | Vesna Madzoski
In her weekly column in the Dutch NRC Handelsblad, Maria Barnas contemplates the difficulties of grasping Einstein’s theory of relativity and how Andre Klukhuhn’s lecture at the minisymposium made her come closer to an understanding of the fourth dimension. http://weblogs.nrc.nl/cultuurblog/2010/07/18/cs-maria-barnas-aanhikken/ —– CS: Maria Barnas … Continue reading2010 | Aanhikken | Maria Barnas
CONTACT – ART AS THE OUTER LIMITS OF THE UNIVERSE ©Rune Peitersen 2010 The movie ‘Contact’ (1997) explores different aspects of the traditional positions of science and faith; what is faith and how does faith differ from scientific deduction. It cleverly raises a few questions … Continue reading2010 | Contact – Art as the outer limits of the Universe
MINI SYMPOSIUM July 8th Ellen de Bruijne projects Saccadic Sightings: Einstein & Bohr, Rune Peitersen Initiated in 2008, Saccadic Sightings began as a study of visual perception. Using a Mobile Eye, a scientific eye tracking device, Peitersen was able to film his field of view … Continue reading2010 | Einstein & Bohr Symposium | Ellen de Bruijne Projects