‘I’ by Gina Czarnecki
If our reality depends on personal observations, then vision shapes our selective perception of the world. ‘I’ is a project created by Gina Czarnecki that invites the public to reflect on the correlation between vision and cognition and understand the eye from the perspectives of a physicist, biologist and psychologist. Being a result of collaboration between the artist and a team of scientists for the Lumiere festival, Durham, it combines footage by the artist as well as scanned images of visitors’ irises. Members of the audience that visited this multi-part installation in 2013, had the opportunity to experience a participatory role as they interacted with a state of the art scanning booth that captured images of their irises and projected them on the opposite building’s façade. This proved highly successful in engaging participants as 2,500 unique scans were collected over four nights, an average of one scan every 15 seconds.
Learn more about the project here.
