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http://perriquet.net/docs/perriquet-palais-2017-eng.pdf

http://palaisdetokyo.com/en/event/dream-forms

https://www.college-de-france.fr/site/alain-prochiantz/ symposium-2017-2018.htm

Charles Percy Snow, The two cultures (1959)

VISUAL

To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei , as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science. Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its possessor, as is certainly the case; if further, the eye ever varies and the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case; and if such variations should be useful to any animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself originated; but I may remark that, as some of the lowest organisms, in which nerves cannot be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible that certain sensitive elements in their sarcode should become aggregated and developed into nerves, endowed with this special sensibility. Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species (1859)

Quand je vois à travers l'épaisseur de l'eau le carrelage au fond de la piscine, je ne le vois pas malgré l'eau, les reflets, je le vois justement à travers eux, par eux. S'il n'y avait pas ces distorsions, ces zébrures de soleil, si je voyais sans cette chair la géométrie du carrelage, c'est alors que je cesserais de le voir comme il est, où il est, à savoir : plus loin que tout lieu identique. L'eau elle-même, la puissance aqueuse, l'élément sirupeux et miroitant, je ne peux pas dire qu'elle soit dans l'espace : elle n'est pas ailleurs, mais elle n'est pas dans la piscine. Elle l'habite, elle s'y matérialise, elle n'y est pas contenue, et si je lève les yeux vers l'écran des cyprès où joue le réseau des reflets, je ne puis contester que l'eau le visite aussi, ou du moins y envoie son essence active et vivante. C'est cette animation interne, ce rayonnement du visible que le peintre cherche sous les noms de profondeur, d'espace, de couleur. Merleau-Ponty, L'œil et l’esprit (Le Tholonet, 1961)

emission theory

LIDAR (ligt detection and ranging)

Frank Rosenblatt, Perceptron (1958)

WORLDS

Jakob von Uexküll (1934)

The scallop’s many eyes

Marcus Coates, Unmade Monument (2013)

Quentin Destieu, Machine 2 Fish (2016)

Francis Alÿs, The Nightwatch (2005)

Human Vision Nonhuman Vision animal diversity, evolution umwelt artificial autonomy Alternate or New regimes of vision surveillance military drones satellites autonomous cars space probes video surveillance cameras analysis, segmentation, image annotation …

The scallop’s many eyes

mass surveillance in China

!Mediengrup bitnik, Surveillance Chess (2012)

Pierre Huyghe, Uumwelt, Serpentine Gallery, London (2018)

Human Vision Nonhuman Vision animal diversity, evolution umwelt artificial autonomy surveillance

Human Vision Nonhuman Vision animal diversity, evolution umwelt artificial autonomy surveillance cosmic depth of the skies and the seas unreachable locations space and time immeasurable to ours

The Blue Marble is an image of Earth taken on December 7, 1972, from a distance of about 29,000 kilometers from the planet's surface. It was taken by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the Moon, and is one of the most reproduced images in history.

Trevor Paglen, They watch the moon (2010)

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