Beginnings of the curation process.

Something I need to get going on asap is the curation of what is going to be in my exhibition. I think it will a process in progress for quite a while, but gotta start somewhere. I'll be collecting loads of images to sift through that relate to each other out of a common visual perception concept/theory/phenomena/etc. Basically this will progress eventually to things that will be in the same section together within my proposed exhibition.

This first batch will probably give you a migraine if you look at them too long.

Visual perception relevancy: illusory motion
Art movement: Kinetic and Op-Art

I find it fascinating that some of these were made by "op-artists", while others were made by "vision scientists."
(click images to enlarge)

MacKay Rays
Donald M. MacKay (vision scientist)

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The Christmas Lights illusion
Gianni A. Sarcone (op-artist)

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Bridget Riley (op-artist)
(she gets her own post in a bit)

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Nick Wade (vision scientist)

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The Ouchi Illusion
Hajime Ouchi (op-artist)

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The Ouchi Illusion (variation of previous)
Akiyoshi Kitaoka (vision scientist)

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Hatpin Urchin
Akiyoshi Kitaoka (vision scientist)

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The Rotating-Tilted-Lines Illusion
Simone Gori, Kai Hamburger (vision scientists)

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The Rotating-Tilted-Lines Illusion (variation of previous)
Isia Leviant (op-artist)

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The Enigma Illusion
Isia Leviant (op-artist)

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That's it for the moment, more Bridget Riley and Akiyoshi Kitaoka pieces to come.

]link to some brief info about most of the above pieces.
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Awesome use of visual illusions to prove a point.

Transport for London 'Illusions' commercial.
Agency: M&C Saatchi
Credits: Peter Saville, Graham Fink, Mark Goodwin

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Olly Moss

uses visual illusions in poster design.



link


via the apt
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Sensory Perception

Fun infographic from the Boston Globe!




via neurophilosophy

duck or rabbit?

Pretty much everyone has seen this famous illusion at some point...



Simon Cunningham takes it to a new level making a photographic version. awesome.



As fun as these illusions are though, they tell us important information about the way the brain processes visual information. They show the ability of the brain to maintain multistable perceptions. In this example there are two mutually exclusive images to be seen. The duck and the rabbit. You cannot see both the duck and the rabbit simultaneously, instead your brain shifts back and forth between the two perceptions. Other examples of ambiguous figures like this include (most famously) the Necker Cube and old-lady/young-woman illusion (not sure of proper name).



If you wanted to apply this idea to typography, this is the same phenomena that allows the middle character to be read as both '13' and 'B'...



This technique is sometimes used in logotypes. I need to look for some examples...

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Fun!

The Whitest Boy Alive - Golden Cage

Not that the visuals are at all relevant to the music,
but it does go well with the beat and presents some fun optical illusions...



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Thanks to my friend anna for showing it to me.

Your eye is not a camera. Part 1 of ∞

If you are not convinced vision isn't always veridical (coinciding with reality),
I will have lots of visual illusions soon to change your mind.
I've been a little caught up in research (sans visuals) lately.
So now I am looking for lots of illustrations to help get back to inspiring the visual basis of all this.
They can be more than a little headache-inducing at times though, so I don't want to post tons at a time.
Here's one to get the ball rolling...

(This is a still image. Any perceived motion is an illusion.)

source


One of the most important concepts I want to stress is that our perceptions are internal constructions of hypothesized external realities!!!

(I put the 2nd half in italics because it is quoted from my notes for my Visual Perception class last semester.
It may have been a direct quote from my teacher, Adrien Mack, or it may just be me summarizing her lecture.)
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Ames room

Ya know this scene from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind?...



Well it is done using an Ames Room. Learn more about it here.





Now ya know.
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Hermann Grid Illusions

link
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