Some highlights from my recent visits to Saatchi Gallery and The Photographers’ Gallery that provided an unexpected direction for developing my current experiments.
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Space observation parallels with Kinetic art
These NASA images of the comet 3I/ATLAS appeared on my news feed yesterday and I instantly noticed a connection to the perceptual phenomena and artist research I’m doing.
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Kinetic artists that engineer perception: Carlos Cruz-Diez
Throughout his career Cruz-Díez has focused on four types of self-defined Op art categories: Physichoromies, Chromo-interferences, Chromosaturations and Transchromies.
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Kinetic artists that engineer perception: Victor Vasarely
Vasarely created “startlingly precise, often hallucinatory images producing a kind of optical vibration on the surface.”
His paintings exploit “illusion as a function of sensory response”—the work operates directly on perception through systematic manipulation of colour and geometry.
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Kinetic artists that engineer perception: Jesus Rafael Soto
According to Jesus Rafael Soto, “The immaterial is the sensory reality of the universe. Art is the sensory knowledge of the immaterial.” His mechanism: superimposed hatched surfaces producing perceptual dissolution where solid elements appear to dematerialise.
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Six ways perception can be altered: Initial research
This post explores six perceptual phenomena that illuminate how we see, perceive time, and experience awareness — both in daily life and in meditation.
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The self as a construct: Common themes between neuroscience and yogic philosophy
Neuroscientist Anil Seth presents how the self is not what it seems — it’s a controlled hallucination created by the brain, just like our perception of the external world.
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His video reminded me of some illustrations I’d previously seen on Swami J’s yoga & meditation website, and there are some striking parallels. -
Do we see reality as it is? Three perspectives on perception
I explored several TED talks by leading researchers and scholars who are challenging our most basic intuitions about perception, consciousness, and reality itself. Fascinating insights.
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