Light adaptation

Sensitivity of the human photonic visual system declines with increasing ambient intensity. Sensitivity regulation is part of a process called 'light adaptation'. this process stabilises object appearance across illuminated conditions.
Abstract Masking, a process in which the stimulus visibility can be reduced by other stimuli that overlap the same region of visual space, a process known as masking.
Light phenomena enhances the details of your surroundings.
Visualising a dimension we wouldn't usually perceive.

Thoughts about visualising a space, creating a fabricated environment consisting of the sensory elements. A different space for each element, creating separate synthetic worlds that will cause the audience to engage with their senses in a new and unique way, to provide a journey of thought into an alternative reality.

Layered resin glow in the dark pouches

Glow bricks

Experimenting with resin, entrapping glow in the dark paint within the resin layers. Creating brick like forms that could possibly be used as location markers for the Festival.

Intangibility

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPAoWflgO1w

I thought this film related well to the intangible element to our ideas, the smoke is made visible by the lighting and it seems to have a ghostly presence as it moves across the room.

Light Illuions

Research into the effects of luminosity of lighting.

Pupils constrict wen we look at a brighter object from increased luminosity. we construct partly illusory perceptions that help us function better. Various light phenomena help us see details in our surroundings much better. Many illusions reflect the best interpretation we have of visual information. Maybe what we see is better than reality..

Future Everything

In relation to the topics we have been considering within our group. A night festival, or events in darkness. As part of the Future Everything Festival I attended the Speed of Light event and the imagery from the event I think could be a relevant link to our group discussions.

Silent Stretches of Space

There is nothing like silence to suggest a sense of unlimited space.
Absence of sound leaves it quiet and in the silence we are seized with the sensation of something vast and boundless.
The mere absence of noise causes people to psychologically fall apart.

Sensory Deprivation

Sensory derivation, perceptual isolation- deliberately reducing or removing the stimuli from one or more of the senses. The zero gravity effect of the salt water within the sensory deprivation tanks and the lack of temperature plays with your ability to perceive where your body ends and where water and air begin.
Our senses are very much used to the everyday ruckus constantly surrounding us of which we become reliant on.
. Thinking of possible ways of soundproofing and light proofing spaces.
. Isolating its occupant from numerous forms of sensory input.
. Senses become a bridge between two alternative realities.

Senses

Bringing light into places often hidden or concealed in the light, and revealing these places when in darkness.
Low stimulus spaces, quiet anechoic spaces.
The limits of what you could experience, or limiting the experience.

Researching into anechoic spaces/ chambers. The acoustics of the space create an almost limitless an vast space like you are high up in the open air despite the space being rather restricted in size, there are no reflections from the walls, floor or ceiling therefore tricking the mind into thinking you are surround by a vast space.
The space is immensely quiet, ideal for testing particularly quite sounds.
Due to the quietness of the space and its boundless surroundings it could be a perfect place of reflection, the sound of silence and the silent stretches of space.

The Poetics of Space

From reading the Poetics of Space there were some points discussed about how to enhance an empty space.

An echo of a space emphasises its emptiness.
Mirroring a space emphasises its fullness.

This could be representative of an old water or oil tanker, empty shells of something once full, contained and concealed.

Space

 

Considering ideas from discussions within the groups about space and the elements I think are most interesting.

 

. Thinking about an awareness of place and space reflecting back on points made in the Manchester International Festival (MIF), making people aware of unknown spaces, masking the identity of a space or to enhance its emptiness.

 

.Within empty spaces create a place that is out of control or simply lost, the presence of absence.

 

. Spaces of Manchester, grey dungeness of an empty space, the empty shell block building near the mancunian way, places evacuated of life, the end of the old or the beginning of something new.

. Wasting time, exhausting time, thinking of time passing within the space.



 

 

Walter Benjamin

'The grey film of dust covering things has become their best part'

The ruin in reverse, how it could become an all new construction that would be eventually built.

Ruins

A site from which life has departed and creating a present from a past life. Giving Space new life..
Creating a space to occupy a central place in visual culture.

Manchester Design Festival

Space discussion.

. Manchester City Council and Manchester School of Art working together to develop a city wide design festival.
. The regeneration of the city
. Acting as a catalyst for future collaborative partnerships.
. The use of un-traditional spaces
. Festival branding an promotion.
. A festival of ideas.
. Unexpected interactions.
. Themed displays rather than subjects.

Tacita Dean, Sound Mirrors

It is an empty desolate place, and I'm sure it is this desolation that makes dungeness so utterly attractive that in its emptiness it can become so full.

 

Tacita Dean

 

Thinking about the emptiness of space and how emptiness could reflect something vast and boundless.