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description of the work>
Step 1. Eye-PDs (Eye-Perception-Drawing system)
What is the ‘Eye-PDs’? Eye-PDs is a device for brain image
drawing.
With the Eye-PDs system, an eye is a brush and video frames
are drawing materials.
Step 2. 'Port-scape' drawn by the portable Eye-PDs in
historical sites with solar power backpack.
What is the 'Port-scape'? It is the mixed concept of 'portrait'
and 'landscape'.
I will create 'Port-(rait-Land)-scape's at the historical
site with tourists and natives. First of all, I will draw
portraits of tourists and natives using Eye-PDs system.
Secondly, I will give them the Eye-PDs and they will draw
the historical site as a landscape using the Eye-PDs.
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| Eye-PDs
(Eye-Perception-Drawing system)
What
is the Eye-PDs? Eye-PDs is a device for brain image drawing.
Eye-PDs
is composed of two real-time video cameras, four servo-motors,
a PIC micro-controller and Max/MSP/Jitter software. Video
camera captures a movement of the one eye and sends the
real-time video to Max/MSP/Jitter in a computer. Tracking
the movement of the one eye, Jitter sends two X-Y values
of the eye’s central position to the micro-controller.
The PIC micro-controller controls the servo-motors and
makes the camera move horizontally and vertically according
to the eye’s movement.
The
video image of the surveillance camera on the servo-motors
is sent to Jitter again. After that, the moving images
are accumulated in the computer, which analyzes the process
of perception such as the order of eye-focusing, the duration
of eye-pause and the number of blinks, and so on. Using
this information, the accumulated video images, 29.97
frames per second, are layered, scaled, focused-in or
focused-out and positioned according to the eye reaction.
Through the eye and the process of system, the Eye-PDs
construes a still image as a Gestalt, "whole form".
The
Gestalt image by Eye-PDs, is due to the traces of seeing
and the degree of concentrating. Eye-PDs is neither a
Human Eye nor a Camera Eye, but it reflects on the physiological
reaction of the human eye in real time and it is also
a recordable as a camera eye. Through this Third Eye,
I expect to reveal the participant’s subconsciousness
in perceiving.
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form of my project will be performances in the public space
(the Eye-PDs as a DIY kit), digital printings and a project
web page. I will make the Eye-PDs portable by using the
Solar Backpack. With the Eye-PDs, I will draw 'Port-scape's
at the historical site with tourists. First of all, I will
draw tourists' portraits using Eye-PDs system. Secondly,
I will give the Eye-PDs to tourists and they will draw the
site as a landscape using the Eye-PDs. After that, the computer
composes 'Port-scapes' on the spot and prints out them.
I will show it to participants and interview them to ask
their feeling of the site and agreement for exhibition.
Ultimately,
I intend to express a 'Port-Scape' as a perception record
of personal feeling about historical site. The 'Port-(rait-Land)-scape'
is a mixed concept of 'portrait' and 'landscape'. In my
opinion, It could be realized by the Eye-PDs. Because
the Eye-PDs is a drawing device based on the camera eye
and it willingly or unwillingly shoots figures and the
scenery at the same time. Drawing materials of Eye-PDs
are still images of video and someone with Eye-PDs can
draw the figure and the background simultaneously.
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Eye-PDs and Port-scape: Study on Perception Image, 32 Avenue of
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