The painter's eye.
- Date:
- 1999
- Videos
About this work
Description
The artist Humphrey Ocean and scientist filmmaker John Tchalenko explore how a painter transforms his vision of the external world into a picture on a canvas. It charts the progress of the project using the biomedical tools of the eyetracker and a brain scanner. A biomedical eye-tracker is attached to Humphrey and this records exactly how many times his eye fixates on a particular area as well as where his eye is moving. To map the brain process the Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technique (FMRI) is used. The final experiment involves a movement sensor being attached to the pencil in Humphrey's hand to reveal how many times he fixated the model and paused his hand.
Publication/Creation
United Kingdom : (not known), 1999.
Physical description
1 video cassette (VHS) (52 min.) : sound, color, PAL
Contributors
Notes
The Wellcome Trust awarded this project a Sci-Art grant and The National Portrait Gallery displayed the Painter's Eye Exhibition.
Supporting paperwork available in the department.
Copyright note
John Tchalenko Films 1999.
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