User:Quinten Swagerman/Project proposal

A first version of the project proposal in the form of eight lists and a table from 1962

Possible titles:

Possible final forms:

5 looping projections
- One for each sense described in the table
- Based on the detection tresholds described in the table
- Illustrating those tresholds
- Or using them as a starting point for a fiction

An animated documentary explaining a phenomenon, such as:
- Floaters in the eye or other entoptic phenomena
- Persistance of vision
- Bee perception

Possibly containing 'physical' elements:
- Reflection
- Shadow
- Zoetrope-like lo-tech shutter mechanisms
- Camera obscura image projection techniques

Topics I'd like to explore:

Currently reading:

Sensation & Perception - Jeremy M. Wolfe - Sinauer, 2009
Contemporary Psychophysics - Eugene Gallagher - New Directions in Psychology, 1962
Oliver Sacks - The Mind's Eye - Picador, 2010
God's Amateur - E.C. Large - Hyphen, 2010
River Of Shadows - Rebecca Solnit - Penguin, 2004
A History of Pre-Cinema - Stephen Herbert - Routledge, 2000
Circularity and Repetition at the Heart of the Attraction - Nicolas Dulac & André Gaudreault - Amsterdam University Press 2006

To read:

Nike Bätzner - Blickmaschinen / Visual Tactics - Dumont, 2008
Mary Ann Doane - The Emergence of Cinematic Time - Harvard University Press 2002
Jonathan Crary - Suspensions of Perception - The MIT Press 1999
Jonathan Crary - Techniques of the Observer - The MIT Press 1990
Laurent Mannoni - Eyes, Lies And Illusions - Lund Hemphries Publishers 2004
Friedrich Kittler - Optical Media - Polity, 2010
Lisa Gitelman & Geoffrey Pingree - New Media 1740 - 1915 - MIT Press
Harvey White - Floaters' in the eye - Scientific American 1962
Maurice Merleau-Ponty - Phenomenology of Perception – Routledge 2005 (1st ed.: Gallimard, Paris 1945)

To see:

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