Watkins, Julie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8872-7041 (2023) Vision freed from frozen cyclops: interacting with visual media, an artistic, critical and technical practice exploring spatial depth. Body Space Technology, 22 (1). pp. 168-189. ISSN 1470-9120 (Online) (doi:10.16995/bst.9715)

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Abstract

David Hockney has longcriticised linear perspective and the perspective imposed by photography, whichhe suggests reduces our vision to a static experience as seen through onefrozen eye. This paper has posited that our visual experience of being in 3-Dspace is not captured when we take a photograph. Furthermore, elevatingphotographic visual reality diminishes the understanding of the power ofindividual visual sensibility and perception imbricated in lived experience.Accepting photographs as the ultimate visual veracity conforms to thecomputer-biased norm of elevating what is most easily measured, computed andcommunicated. After establishing the importance of individualvisual sensibility relevant theories and studies in art and visual psychologyand approaches to creating visual media are reviewed. Artistscan create simplified or even abstract works that convey space and lightbecause our visual brains use a simplified version of the physics of the realworld. Case-studies of artists’ work that foregroundspatial depth are examined. Explorations from my own practice in spatial depthare examined. The paper concluded with importance of reducing visual detail andforegrounding the tactile in creating an enriched, individualised, interactiveexperience and a call to more awarenessof our richness of vision.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	immersive; interactive; visual perception; artistic processes and approaches; spatial depth
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Design (DES)
Last Modified:	06 Mar 2023 12:06
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/38472

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