IAN GIBBINS
IAN GIBBINS
(Australia)
IAN GIBBINS is a poet, video artist and electronic musician living on unceded Kaurna land in South Australia. His poetry has been widely published in Australia and overseas, and includes four books. His award-winning poetry videos, video art and soundscapes have been exhibited to acclaim at festivals, installations, galleries and public art displays around the world. Until he retired in 2014, Ian was an internationally recognised neuroscientist and Professor of Anatomy at Flinders University, South Australia. Much of his work melds art and science in different ways..
PURSUIT YELLOW
DIGITAL ART
Technical sheets
Artistic Direction: Ian Gibbins
Digital Production: Ian Gibbins
Digital art format: square (116 x 116 cm)
Year: 2020
Synopsis
Abstract images and films have been around for about 100 years, but they remain a challenge for many people. Our brains are, to a large extent, programmed to try to find a narrative structure (that is, some sort of story) in virtually any sequence of events. So, what happens when words fail… When an image simply does not convey the lived experience… A narrative without text or representational images…
The image is generated from the video created using a sequence generated in Isadora 3 and subsequently in Motion 5, with final processing in Final Cut Pro X. Audio created from a single percussion loop in Logic Pro X.
In this work, in fact, there is no yellow light emanating from the digital image. The only light emitted by the digital screen is red, green and blue. The colour receptors in our eyes are also, in general, sensitive to red, green and blue light, but within broad ranges. Thus, light with a wavelength of 565–590 nm activates both the red and green photoreceptors in the eye, and we perceive this as yellow. If these receptors are activated more or less equally by pure green light (500–550 nm) and pure red light (625–700 nm) from a digital screen, we also perceive this as yellow..
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