INTRŌSPICERE
An introspective experience of a perceptual inversion, a conceptual optical experiment on human vision.
一场重新思考 "看" 与 "见" 的感觉实验。一次一人，由光而生的内观体验。
In a confined space is a subjective experience, where a custom computer vision program and an infrared camera are installed to detect the eyes of the viewer in real-time. The default dim setting is slowly illuminated after the viewer closes their eyes for a few seconds, in a warm wash of luminance, to which all instantly ceases and reverts to darkness upon an opening and blink of an eye(s).
The installation space is dynamic amidst the two interdependent states of light and dark, two interchanging perceptions of photopic and scotopic vision. When the frequency of change directly corresponds to the compulsion of our eyes to see, often just in the blink of an eye, our obsession to apperceive can easily supersede our eyes' natural ability to adapt...
More often than ever, in this fast information age prevailed with visual media, where the acquisition of information and content, can seemingly exceed any relevance of the acquiring process itself. This piece attempts to reflect upon this hegemony on vision, and our current custom of unconsciously perceiving and accumulating information, our inclinations towards content, and blind to the means and process of perception itself. In this experience, the viewer is placed, in a closed perceptual environment with an inverted perspective, to re-experience the fundamental sense of seeing through a lens of introspect.
有限的主观体验空间内安置着一台夜视摄像头，通过计算机视觉程序对人眼的实时追踪、运算，在识别人眼闭上数秒后即点亮空间内的一束光。如晨曦般，一点点照亮原本昏暗的未知空间。而人只能透过眼睑去感受这和煦的曙光，因为一切都将在睁眼的刹那全部熄灭…
空间处于明（昼光觉）与暗（晚光觉）两种相对视觉状态的变换之间，而人眼的明暗适应能力必然跟不上人们眨眼之间浏览信息的频率。在如今越加依赖视觉媒体与快文化的信息时代，我们变得更易于注意所浏览的信息内容，而非感知信息的过程与方式。这个作品尝试引发人们反思我们无意识获取信息的常态，对视觉感知过程自身的忽视。作品邀请观者于新的环境、新的角度，于心反观“看”这一基本感觉。
2021
Installation: custom computer vision program, infrared camera, computer, light projector
2021
AR filter
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