Perceptual Play: Optical Illusion Art as Radical Interface
Place: Medialab-Prado. Plaza de las Letras, C/ Alameda, 15 · Madrid
Julian Oliver looks at a history of artistic investigation concerned with Optical Illusions and those practices that intend to provoke a critical self-consciousness about how we see, what we don't see and the habits of seeing themselves.
This session, within the frame of the Light, space and perception work group, will consist on a mini-workshop (16:30h) and a lecture (19:00h).
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Within the frame of the Light, space and perception work group, led by Daniel Canogar, Julian Oliver y Pablo Valbuena.
At 16:30h: mini-workshop
At 19:00h: lecture
In this lecture Julian Oliver looks at a history of artistic investigation concerned with exploiting 'flaws' or tendencies in the way human beings explore visual phenomena. Surveying techniques such as Perspectival Anamorphosis and Trompe-l'oeil through to those found in contemporary Optical Illusion Art, he argues that such explorations represent an important (and early) Interactive Art practice that is difficult to ignore.
From a rich base of examples Julian details how particular features of these interaction designs were actively intended to provoke a personal and critical self-consciousness about how we see, what we don't see and the habits of seeing themselves. As such, he contends that work of this kind stands as a vital and rigorously self-reflexive vein in the history of the Visual Arts.
