How we see things (or don't see things) - Loop #5027 Loop #5028 - perceptual experiment series for the human eye and the camera’s eye
Loop #5027 and Loop #5028 are radically reduced black-and-white animations in which differing temporal frequencies generate a perceptual discrepancy between the emitted signal and the perceived image: although no color or blur is present, both are often experienced. This discrepancy becomes explicit when the work is recorded with a mobile camera, whose time-based sampling and image processing produce new visual artifacts—colored bands, distortions, and fringe effects—revealing technical vision as apparatus-specific image production rather than representation. The work thus juxtaposes generated signal, human perception, and sensor-based translation, suggesting that the image is not a fixed object but a conditional event dependent on the system that perceives it.
Places: Party Archive Research Group, Kőbánya Underground 2026
Detailed description
How we see things (or don't see things)
perceptual experiment series for the human eye and the camera’s eye
Loop #5027 (2005/2026) Black Box
Loop #5028 (2005/2026) How to draw a circle
Medium: VJ visual archive – video loop
2005/2026
Loop #5027 and Loop #5028 are radically reduced, black-and-white animations, which details and background light changes at different frequencies create a time-based stimulus in which the displayed image and the perceived image do not coincide. The loop represents neither color nor blurring, yet in the experiential vision we often experience a sense of color and contour dissolution: what transformation steps turn the technical signal into a perceptual event and at what level can the status of the image be recorded—in the emitted pattern, in the viewer's processing, or in the relationship between the two.
The second, reflexive layer of Loop #5027 and Loop #5028 becomes visible in the act of recording. When the viewer attempts to “document” the spectacle with a technical device—such as a mobile camera—the sensor’s time sampling and image processing procedures generate their own visual event during the still image creation proccess: colored bands, distorted transitions, and auratic fringes appear where the original animation contains only binary contrast. Technical image recording thus functions not as mediation but as apparatus-specific image production; technical vision does not copy but recreates the stimulus.
In this sense, Loop #5027 and Loop #5028 juxtaposes three medial levels—generated signal, perceptual event, sensory translation—and suspends the hierarchy between them. The “black box” is not a metaphor for hidden content, but an operative statement: the image is not an object, but a conditional event that remain partially closed to all access.
Research background
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