»Fractured Visions: To See Again«
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© Tamiko Thiel, 2014; Inspired by the palinopsia symptom polyopia, "Fractured Visions: Multiplicities" causes the facades of The Shard and Guy's Hospital Tower to repeat and fragment.
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»Fractured Visions: To See Again«, 2014
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Tamiko Thiel, 2014. Commissioned by the AXNS Collective in collaboration with psychiatrist and clinical lecturer Dr.Dominic ffytche of King's College London.Supported by grants from the Arts Council England, the Wellcome Trust and King's College London.
"Fractured Visions" premiered in September 2014 as part of the MERGE Festival
http://tamikothiel.com/fracturedVisions.html
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An augmented reality installation on the fragility of human vision.
Inspired by palinopsia, a rare visual disorder, these two site-specific artworks disrupt the field of vision when viewed through a smartphone, causing London’s tallest building The Shard, and neighboring buildings of King’s College Guy’s Campus, to seem to fracture and repeat.
Architectural details of the surrounding buildings are layered and repeated on top of the actual structures, such that the viewer experiences the disorienting effects of this extreme condition in which the real is conflated with the virtual. As artworks inspired by palinopsia, Fractured Visions provides viewers with a unique emotional and experiential perspective on how the world can look through different eyes.
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