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'''A first version of the project proposal in the form of eight lists and a table from 1962''' | |||
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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 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: | |||
* 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 | |||
* Maurice Merleau-Ponty - Phenomenology of Perception – Routledge 2005 (1st ed.: Gallimard, Paris 1945) | |||
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 | |||
Possibly drop in here: | |||
* http://studiegids.uva.nl/web/uva/sgs/nl/c/11362.html | |||
* http://studiegids.uva.nl/web/uva/sgs/nl/c/1880.html | |||
Latest revision as of 17:16, 7 November 2011
A first version of the project proposal in the form of eight lists and a table from 1962
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 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:
- 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
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty - Phenomenology of Perception – Routledge 2005 (1st ed.: Gallimard, Paris 1945)
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
Possibly drop in here: