Seeing Things Double Again

01 December 2010 / Making of

Experience Experiments (Seeing Things Double Again)

Albers; Gestalt rules; visual intelligence; after images ; steoposis; blindspots; seeing illusions; constraints; inattentional blindness (Link: Visual Cognition Laboratory)

Readings:
V. S. Ramachandran: Phantoms in the Brain: “Do Martians See Red?”
Jonathan Crary: “Historical Readings on the Afterimage” in Olafur Eliasson: your colour memory
Simon Ings: The Eye: A Natural History: “The Commonwealth of the Senses”

Look reading together: excerpts from Donald Hoffman: Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See

Experiment: seeing into you blindspot walk

Video excerpts from Werner Herzog: Fata Morgana, 1971