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Raumwesen - technical description: Two virtual cameras are aligned along a horizontal axis. The human interocular distance is between 5-6,5 cm. Other animals such as snakes have a smaller interocular distance. The cameras are moving along this axis, thus changing the distance between the observers eyes between the human and the snakes perspective. The movement is synchronized with the breathing of the lying figure. ...
In examining the question „what it means to see?“ we think vision as a collective seeing effort, moving away from the binocular setup to a diffracted mode of seeing, seeing with skin-eyes, distributed, restless, in-between. To do this, we look at the principles of stereoscopic vision and the slight but relative discrepancies in the communication of information, or what is called the disparation, the slight difference between the two images delivered to the retina and consequently to the brain. The stereoscopic principle creates depth, “it merely requires the image formed on the retina of the left eye to be different from the image formed on the retina of the right eye … the two images must not be superposable, but their difference must be slight”. The range in the difference between the two images is limited, even though information increases the further apart. At a certain point each image abruptly becomes independent and thus the corresponding depth is lost.
One of the first attempts took a virtual mesh of a figure from the previous research project INTRA-SPACE, Carla, and experimented with shifts between human and animal, in this case, snake, stereoscopic parameters. Images drifting apart and closer again while we look at the breathing motion of Carla’s chest. This work was commissioned for the group exhibition „die körper und der raum“ at aut.architektur und tirol that opened in July 2021.
A sound piece with technical and human voices speaking from different directions in the space was developed for the animation.
