Look through it
There are only two worlds we can see in the modern age through our eyes and screen with lenses.
“Look through it” explores how power impacts the way we perceive the world through lenses and our bodies.
This piece depicts a fictional eye test through different types of cameras. By merging eye test and camera resolution test charts to operate eye tests with cameras, the work provokes contemplation about the impact of power and standardisation of human perception through lens based media. The narrative of getting better eyesight and colour vision through these cameras actually implies the loss of agency and the expansion of power. Form a private space(Home) to a panopticon space(CCTV) and reach a post-panopticon space(mobile).
“Look through it” explores how power impacts the way we perceive the world through lenses and our bodies.
This piece depicts a fictional eye test through different types of cameras. By merging eye test and camera resolution test charts to operate eye tests with cameras, the work provokes contemplation about the impact of power and standardisation of human perception through lens based media. The narrative of getting better eyesight and colour vision through these cameras actually implies the loss of agency and the expansion of power. Form a private space(Home) to a panopticon space(CCTV) and reach a post-panopticon space(mobile).
Audience engage
A screen without polarizing film, audiences can only engage it by wearing the glasses made of polarizing film to see the fictional world clearly, the character in the film doesn't have the glasses to see what he wants clearly on the screen of the film, which is how the interaction happens when audiences realised they are a part of the narrative after they follow the character’s instruction to turning head. The core point is to make them think about the reality of the world they perceive through screens and lenses.
A screen without polarizing film, audiences can only engage it by wearing the glasses made of polarizing film to see the fictional world clearly, the character in the film doesn't have the glasses to see what he wants clearly on the screen of the film, which is how the interaction happens when audiences realised they are a part of the narrative after they follow the character’s instruction to turning head. The core point is to make them think about the reality of the world they perceive through screens and lenses.
The testing charts
Measurement and normalisation play key roles in Foucault's examination theory of disciplinary techniques to produce knowledge and power.
I observed parallels between the examination of the resolution & colour test of images and human eye tests, they implied standardised systems establish norms and standards within media institutions and hospital institutions.
Measurement and normalisation play key roles in Foucault's examination theory of disciplinary techniques to produce knowledge and power.
I observed parallels between the examination of the resolution & colour test of images and human eye tests, they implied standardised systems establish norms and standards within media institutions and hospital institutions.
Theoretical research
