Eye for an eye : an exploration of visual abilities and perception
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Abertay University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 31987113
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- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- Multicomponent output
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month
- June
- Year
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Lyons’ work takes a novel approach focusing on different visual perceptions including how art is perceived by the blind and partially sighted. These explorations translate design into artifacts enhancing meaning and accessibility. Eye for an Eye and Expression Intercession, collaborations with Raz Ullah, are two such explorations. They are part of a larger collection: Double Vision.
Eye for an Eye and Triple Blind consists of a set of black and white prints that, when combined with motion graphics spatially mapped onto their surface, create potent visual experiences for both colour blind and typically sighted audiences. An audio soundscape accompanies the prints. Companion smart devices programmed augmented reality software are provided to visually translate the experiences for these two audiences.
Expression Intercession is a multi-media art installation. The interactive environment consists of a wall-sized projected motion graphic and a dynamic soundscape. It was created as an artistic exploration of the processes of epigenetics through the support of EpiGeneSys, a European Network of Excellence based at the Institut Curie, Paris.
Eye for and Eye was the topic of a documentary by Art in Scotland TV. A paper on Eye for an Eye was presented and published, and the techniques involved were demonstrated, for the Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA) London conference. A smaller version of Eye for and Eye and Triple Blind was exhibited, as Double Vision, at the Xihu Contemporary Art Gallery in Hangzhou China, for IMPACT9. Its paper was published in the proceedings. Expression Intercession was exhibited at the Cite des Arts gallery in Paris. It was the artistic expression of a scientific collaboration on epigenetics. The exhibition is documented in the book (re)visons. The exhibition inspired, and featured in, the French popular science magazine Biofutur’s art edition with Lyons and Ullah’s interactive environment contribution appearing on the cover.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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