A selection of print works, motion graphics and interactive smart devices created by artist David Lyons and computer scientist David Flatla, exploring visual abilities and perception

Flatla, David R.

Lyons, David

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Double VisionA Practice–led Investigation of Art and Differential PerceptionEye for an EyeHighlightingPerceptual Explorations of Visual Acuities Through AnimationsDouble VisionA Practice–led Investigation of Art and Differential PerceptionDavid LyonsDouble VisionA Practice-led Investigation of Art and Differential Perception Double Vision is a collection of ongoing, practice-led, interrelated studies into artistic expression controlling perceptual experiences between audiences of varying visual acuities.The work is focused on those with different visual perceptions, particularly individuals varying experiences, including how is art perceived by the blind and partially sighted. These explorations lead to the translation of art and design to enhance meaning and accessibility. The ongoing artistic explorations are realized through printmaking, animation, augmented reality and multimedia formats.Double VisionA Practice-led Investigation of Art and Differential Perception Perception is interrogated through practice encompassing aesthetic sensibilities, design principles, artistic notions of colour grouping, colour theory and physiology. Later studies introduce computer programming, interaction and sound. This work seeks an understanding of how distinct visual populations see the world, and to use that knowledge to explore and manipulate their perception of the world, through the medium of art. Additionally, it strives to access others’ perceptual worlds.Double VisionA Practice-led Investigation of Art and Differential Perception Double Vision comprises interrelated visual studies. This document concentrates on the intertwined works Eye for an Eye and Triple Blind. Following is a brief description of all current Double Vision studies:Double Blind Test Series investigates the relationship of vision and perception. Colour Blind Test explores visual stimuli aiming to simultaneously engage audiences of varied colour vision acuities. Eye for An Eye and Triple Vision seeks to advance perceptual interrogation through the introduction of movement, using motion graphics animation, projection mapping and sound.Double VisionA Practice-led Investigation of Art and Differential Perception Ball of Confusion is an environment that integrates graphics, projected animations and a dynamic soundscape.  It is an artistic analogy to colourdeficient vision.Expression Intercession is a multi-media art installation. The interactive environment consists of a wall-sized projected motion graphic and a dynamic soundscape. Its was created as an artistic exploration of visual perception and the processes of epigenetics Circle Squared, through projected motion graphic and interactive sound, looks at colour creation and its effect on our perceptions and expectations by exploring the incongruous relationship between print and screen. Sheep and Goats, a print diptych, communicates unique details exclusively to those with CVD while simultaneously containing imagery that those with typical colour vision experience.Eye For An Eye and Triple VisionPerceptual Explorations of Visual Acuities Through AnimationsEye for an Eye and Triple VisionOverviewEye for An Eye and Triple Vision is a study within Double Vision. Eye for An Eye and Triple Vision seek to advance perceptual interrogation through the introduction of movement, using motion graphics animation, and sound. Created in continued collaboration with computer scientist David Flatla, Triple Vision, adds collaboration with Manchester School of Art sonic artist and musician Raz Ullah. Eye for an Eye’s ambition was to progress the perceptual explorations of embedding multiple visual interpretations to specific visual acuities to animations, through applying the techniques established in previous studies. The investigation continues into artwork intentionally created to be experienced differently dependent on one’s visual abilities with the hope that those experiences can be shared.Animation as designed for those with typical colour visionEye for an Eye and Triple VisionOverviewTriple Vision incorporates the animations of Eye for an Eye into prints. It consists of three identical black and white prints when combined with the Eye for An Eye motion graphics projected and spatially mapped onto their surfaces, create potent visual experiences for both colour blind and typically sighted audiences. Simulation of animation as seen by those with CVDEye for an Eye and Triple VisionOverviewExpanding perceptual exploration, Triple Vision adds sound with its accompanying audio soundscape. Companion smart devices programmed with the CVD simulation and recolouring software were provided to visually translate the experiences between audiences, thereby adding further levels of interaction.Centrespace exhibition of Triple BlindEye for an Eye and Triple VisionExhibitionEye for an Eye/Triple Blind were exhibited as part of Eye for an Eye, an exhibition of Colour Blind Test, Eye for an Eye/Triple Blind and supporting materials, at the Hannah Maclure Centre Gallery, Dundee Scotland. The exhibition was the basis of a 3.5 minute documentary film by colour blind filmmaker Ben Grieves. It was created for Summerhall’s Art In Scotland TV.The paper Eye for an Eye was presented to the Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA) London conference. It outlined the art, science and initial experiments in the creation of the motion graphics and the simulation software for those with full colour vision and those with CVD and was published in the proceedings. The art and the software was demonstrated later in the day.Triple Vision was exhibited at Xihu Contemporary Art Gallery, Hangzhou China as an edited two print/projection piece titled Double Vision. The exhibition was part of the IMPACT 9 international printmaking conference. A paper on the work was published in the proceedings. Eye for an Eye and Triple VisionFindingsThe manipulation of light rather than pigment was challenging and intriguing. The translation of colour between different colour modes, specifically CMYK and RGB was satisfactorily overcome, but it remained to be further explored. This is approached in the next artistic investigation, Ball of Confusion. Detail: Mapping the projection to fit the printd.lyons@abertay.ac.uk

Eye for an eye:an exploration of visual abilities and perception

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Eye for an eye:an exploration of visual abilities and perception

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