«We hope to use this illusion as a tool to uncover why peripheral vision seems so rich and detailed, and more generally, to understand how the brain creates
our visual perceptual experiences.»
Not exact matches
This is why those who have recently revived the notion of
visual experience, such as John Searle and Christopher Peacocke, have broken away from the traditional story about the awareness of
visual sense - data, in favor of the view that
perceptual experience has propositional content (Searle) or representational content (Peacocke).2
Although strikingly heterogeneous, the affinity between the two artists lies implicitly in their shared interest in invoking an aesthetic
experience by employing «low resolution» both as a
visual device and as a
perceptual agent, rendering an embodied looking / seeing, seeking to grasp the technological and psychological intricacies of reality.
Few paintings depict objects too ambiguous for the human
visual system to even recognize with one unique interpretation (an
experience called multistable
perceptual phenomenon).
The third exhibition will feature artwork by contemporary artists who continue to push art into the
perceptual realm with new materials and technologies that create
visual sensations, immersive
experiences, and viewer - active engagement.
Furthermore, by relegating the image to the wall and utilizing it as a kind of
perceptual wallpaper, he acknowledges, and even celebrates, the peripheral nature of
visual experience.
Color is the engine of
perceptual experience and
visual knowledge, and it's the platform on which the radical Light and Space art of the 1960s was built....
The exhibition explores the disruption of
perceptual habits and challenges the ways we
experience visual representation and sensations through art.