Stereoscopic Aeroplanes continued.

IDS : WHAM-BAM-LECTURE-LECTURE

The Information Delivery Service proudly presents:


WHAM-BAM-LECTURE-LECTURE
Information Speculation

15th March 2012, 8-9.30pm
Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB


The Information Delivery Service proudly announces its first public lecture on the topic of Information Speculation.

Attempts are being made by each one of us to make some sense of the constant stream of social, audio, spatial, visual, local and global information in which we find ourselves precariously spinning. Each of us attempts to do so equipped with approximately 1.4kg of electrolysed grey matter. At this moment in time no method has yet been employed by the human race to absorb and funnel this data to a satisfactory level. 

The IDS is dedicated to developing it's own idiosyncratic concepts of communication and information, knowledge and expertise. They aim to then dissolve these structures and wallow somewhere in between imagination and anxiety and take pleasure in the inevitable impossibility of information delivery.

Please join us for a one-hour performative lecture on the subject of information itself.

Refreshments will be provided over conversation following the main event.

Stereographic GIFs

More at http://stereo.nypl.org

"mashing up an important early genre of internet folk art with a nearly forgotten species of folk photography."

Thanks to Burch for this.

4 : Intermedia Exhibition

Studio exhibition. 

'225 Archival Loop'

Ongoing archival project. 225 stereoscopic photographs taken of the view from aeroplane windows, playing on a loop through a digital photo frame.

William Kentridge's Stereoscope

Splitting and Transmissions.

Gaining Stereo Vision

"Space was very contracted and compacted. So if I looked at a tree, the leaves or the branches would appear to overlap one in front of another. But I didn't actually see the pockets of space between the actual branches. So the world was actually smaller and more contracted before my vision changed."

Susan Barry, Neurobiologist

Full interview with Susan Barry here, who gained 3D vision at the age of 48.

Losing Stereo Vision

Thanks again to Katy

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Blue Cone Red Cone

Being a Mollusc...

In short, there were no limitations to my thoughts, which weren't thoughts, after all, because I had no brain to think them; every cell on it's own though every thinkable thing all at once, not through images, since we had not images of any kind at our disposal, but simply in that indeterminate way of feeling oneself there, which did not prevent us from feeling ourselves equally there in some other way.

It was a rich and free and contented condition, my condition at that time, quite the contrary of what you might think.

...

A Desperation filled me, a desire not to do anything special, which would have been out of place, knowing that there was nothing special to do, or non special either, but to respond in some way...

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The shell in this way was able to create visual image of shells, which are things very similar – as far as we know – to the shell itself, except that the shell is here, whereas the images of it are formed elsewhere, possibly on the retina. An image therefore presupposes a retina, which in turn presupposes a complex system stemming from an encephalon. So in producing the shell, I also produced its image - not one, of course, but many because with one shell you can make as many shell-images as you want – but only potential images because to form an image you need all the requisites I mentioned before: and encephalon with its optic ganglia, and an optic nerve to carry the vibrations from outside to inside, and this optic nerve, at the other extremity, ends in something made purposely to see what there is outside, namely the eye.

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In short, I conceived of the eye-encephalon link as a kind of tunnel dug from the outside by the force of what was ready to become and image, rather than from within by the intention of picking up any old image.

Excerpts from The Spiral

The Complete Cosmicomics

Italo Calvino

Mise-en-Abyme

From Daimler Galery lift in Berlin
Mise-en-Abyme.
From the French meaning "place into infinity"
Lift goes up and down several stories, and horizontally for ever.

Flight 6607

"Standing before costly objects of technological beauty, we may be tempted to reject the possibility of awe, for fear that we could grow stupid through admiration. We may feel at risk of becoming overimpressed by architecture and engineering, of being dumbstruck by the Bombardier trains that progress driverlessly between satellites or by the General Electrid GE90 engines that hang lightly off the composite wings of a Boeing 777 bound for Seoul.
And yet to refuse to be awed at all might in the end be merely another kind of foolishness. In a world full of chaos and irregularity, the terminal seemed a worthy and intriguing refuge of elegance and logic."

A Week at the Airport : A Heathrow Diary

Alain De Botton

MagISStra Mission

MagISStra Mission Website here.
Note the 3D photography STILL being used in space exploration.
More amazing photo's on the MagISStra's flickr page here.

On having two eyes.

A Statement for a Semi-fictitious Organisation for People with Two Eyes.

Everything we see, we see twice. Everything is two images. Left eye, right eye. Our brains turn these two coincidental images into a single three dimensional image. Cover one eye and the world shifts.

The world around us is three dimensional. The world in film is two dimensional. So why should we want our two dimensional to be three dimensional?

When a 3D object leaps from the screen, your eyes turn slightly inwards to converge on it, but your lens stays focused on the light from the screen. This conflict can cause nausea. 1

Mars landers are fitted with stereoscopic cameras and therefore the images they send back can be used to make red/blue anaglyph 3D images. The phenomenal and the naff collide.

Concurrent. Synchronous. Coincident. Simultaneous. Blink.

“Two identical, adjacent, battery-operated clocks were initially set to the same time, but, with time, they will inevitably fall out of sync.” (see fig. 1)

A stereoscopic photograph of the sky taken on a clear day from planet earth. A three dimensional photograph of a blank surface that goes on forever. (see fig. 2)

Two stereoscopic photographs taken from an aeroplane flying at approximately thirty six thousand feet. One looking up and one looking down. (see fig. 3)

Everything is two images.

BYOB (own projection)

There and Back II

Stereoscopic (Coincide)

Part of "A History of Accidents"
A group show by 3rd year Intermedia
March 2011