Seeing Things

10. November 2010 / Making-of

Experience Experiments (Seeing Things)

You as a scientific instrument; ‘first perceptions’ experiments; consciousness; experience; interference; prisms; experimentum crucis; some enlightenment

Readings:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “The Human Being is the Most Exact Instrument” & “Delicate Empiricism” in Goethe on Science
Richard Dawkins: Unweaving the Rainbow: „Bar Codes in the Stars“
Jonathan Crary: “Visionary Abstractions” in Surroundings Surrounded

Experiment: reenact Goethe

Watch: rotorelief films of Marcel Duchamp