INVERSE
UNIVERSE
“ I wore special video goggles that inverted not position but brightness: I lived in a negative world in which blacks were white and vice versa. At first I could not recognise faces at all. I soon learned to recognise emotional expressions (surprise, anger etc.), but could never recognise faces, e.g. photos of celebrities. Shadows were white; fuzzy shadows looked like glowing reflections, bright highlights looked like black bugs, and sharp shadows looked like white paper cutouts.”
Stuart Anstis, 1992
NEGATIVE WALK CLONDALKIN JULY 2011
DENIS CONNOLLY TESTING THE FIRST PROTOTYPE WITH GREG KEELEY, BRAY, AUGUST 2011
UPSIDE-DOWN WALK, CHATEAU ROUGE AUGUST 2011
Video Installtaion/headsets
HD Video.
Dimensions : variable.
Year : 2011.
Niamh Clarke wearing the second generation headset
We cannot, in normal life, keep our eyes still enough to lose the image of the overall scene, but it may well be that other animals can. It is an attractive idea that when rabbits or squirrels hold their heads and eyes still they are able to see movement but nothing else,and similarly for toads, snakes, or wolf spiders. It simplifies the world enormously if the high-pass filter nature of the early visual process can be used to restrict what can be detected
Michael Land. Animal Eyes (2001)