Mechanics of Visual Perception

Feuerman, W

Mechanics of Visual Perception

Feuerman, W

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Publisher:: Sydney Architecture Festival 2012
Publication Type:: Exhibition
Citation:: Mechanics of Visual Perception

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dc.contributor.author	Feuerman, W https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3458-7033	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Aanya Roennfeldt	en_US
dc.date	2012-10-30	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Mechanics of Visual Perception	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/32737
dc.description.abstract	The Mechanics of Visual Perception, a public talk and exhibition in the DAB Research Lab at the University of Technology, Sydney from October 30, 2012 November 28, 2012 was part of Sydney Architecture Festival 2012. The exhibit showcased a sample of work from a larger catalogue which investigates the mechanics between the body, mind, and environment. The work uses modes of architectural representation to better understand how and what we see. Drawing on the seminal works of architects such as Bernard Tschumi (in his 1976 Screenplays and 1978 Manhattan Transcripts), it explores ways architectural drawing methods and processes can be used as generative tools. It specifically investigates how the perceptual relationship between eye and mind becomes distorted by physiological changes and creates specific spatial implications. Feuerman draws on his experience of an acute, isolated stroke causing Internuclear Opthalmoplegia (ino), a disorder that affected the coordination of his eyes. The small exhibition space is designed to disturb, to place participants in a world of distortions, reflections, moirés, and soundscapes. Constructed apparatus examine how new ways of seeing can be translated into dynamic visual surfaces and installations that challenge everyday perceptions. Collages accompanied by architectural diagrams and mappings, explore a neurological perceptual distortion with accuracy. The research takes these explorations past documentation into speculation about new spatial environments, and new architectures, that support and transform our understanding of the seen and unseen world. http://www.sydneyarchitecturefestival.org/documents/SAF2012-program-revA.pdf	en_US
dc.format	Architectural analysis and design	en_US
dc.publisher	Sydney Architecture Festival 2012	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Mechanics of Visual Perception	en_US
dc.title	Mechanics of Visual Perception	en_US
dc.type	Exhibition
utslib.location	DAB Research Lab, University of Technology, Sydney	en_US
utslib.for	1201 Architecture	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Architecture
utslib.copyright.status	open_access
pubs.place-of-publication	DAB Research Lab, University of Technology, Sydney	en_US
pubs.start-date	2012-10-30	en_US
pubs.rights-statement	Drawing on the seminal work of architects such as Bernard Tschumi (for example, his 1976 Screenplays and 1978 Manhattan Transcripts), it explored the ways that architectural drawing methods and processes can be used as generative tools for design. It specifically investigated the spatial insights that arise from distorted vision and altered perceptual relationships. In 2007, Feuerman suffered from an acute, isolated stroke that temporarily affected his vision and understanding of perceptual fields. His subsequent work explores how the ‘new ways of seeing’ generated from this experience can be translated into modes of architectural representation such as dynamic visual surfaces and installations that challenge everyday spatial perceptions. The small exhibition space was designed to disturb; to place participants in a world of distortions, reflections, moirés, and soundscapes. Documentation - such as collages and architectural diagrams - was extended into speculations about new spatial environments and new architectures that support and transform our understanding of the seen and unseen world. Mechanics of Visual Perception (30 October - 2 November, 2012) was selected for inclusion in the 2012 Sydney Architecture Festival.	en_US

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The Mechanics of Visual Perception, a public talk and exhibition in the DAB Research Lab at the University of Technology, Sydney from October 30, 2012 November 28, 2012 was part of Sydney Architecture Festival 2012. The exhibit showcased a sample of work from a larger catalogue which investigates the mechanics between the body, mind, and environment. The work uses modes of architectural representation to better understand how and what we see. Drawing on the seminal works of architects such as Bernard Tschumi (in his 1976 Screenplays and 1978 Manhattan Transcripts), it explores ways architectural drawing methods and processes can be used as generative tools. It specifically investigates how the perceptual relationship between eye and mind becomes distorted by physiological changes and creates specific spatial implications. Feuerman draws on his experience of an acute, isolated stroke causing Internuclear Opthalmoplegia (ino), a disorder that affected the coordination of his eyes. The small exhibition space is designed to disturb, to place participants in a world of distortions, reflections, moirés, and soundscapes. Constructed apparatus examine how new ways of seeing can be translated into dynamic visual surfaces and installations that challenge everyday perceptions. Collages accompanied by architectural diagrams and mappings, explore a neurological perceptual distortion with accuracy. The research takes these explorations past documentation into speculation about new spatial environments, and new architectures, that support and transform our understanding of the seen and unseen world. http://www.sydneyarchitecturefestival.org/documents/SAF2012-program-revA.pdf

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