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Revision as of 13:16, 26 October 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 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