User:Quinten Swagerman/Project proposal

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

The table:

Possible titles:

• Some Approximate Detection Treshold Values
• The tick of a watch under quiet conditions at twenty feet
• Floaters in the eye

Possible final forms:

• 5 looping projections
  • One for each sense described in the table
  • Based on or illustrating 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 so-called 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:

• Perception, visual predominantly
• Pre-cinematic devices

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

To see:

• Was geschah wirklich zwischen den Bildern? - Werner Nekes - 1987
• Der Lauf der Dinge - Peter Fischli & David Weiss - 1988
• The Children's Tapes - Terry Fox - 1974