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Project <Eye-PDs>

2006

<Brief 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.

 

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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Final 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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