My plan is to make a simple example of an eye to highlight the complexity of an eye as a whole.
To look into the depth of this subject I dissected two cow's eyeballs in the Waag Society laboratory and experienced the meaning of cornea, aqueous and vitreous humour, iris, lens, retina and blind spot. Eyeball dissection was important to observe the physical tool of vision, that projects data, gives information to brain and feeds one’s reactions.
My next step within this topic was to work on process that stands in the middle of ‘art design’, ‘reuse’ and ‘need’ triangle. I thought of building an instrument out of a cow lens, to use the functions that different parts of eyeball have - To maintain the use of parts, but creating a different tool out of those parts. Part way through the dissecting experience however I saw that a dead lens soon loses its clear transparency as the crystal structure starts to disintegrate.
I was working on simulating some of the ‘eye as a tool’ main purposes. For this I was playing around with a glass lens, sensor and a vibrating motor. I am in process of building an eye prototype, that responds to light. This step connects some fields of interests that I have, such as electronics to living organism, and built a bridge between biolab project and my masters’ programme research.
To look into the depth of this subject I dissected two cow's eyeballs in the Waag Society laboratory and experienced the meaning of cornea, aqueous and vitreous humour, iris, lens, retina and blind spot. Eyeball dissection was important to observe the physical tool of vision, that projects data, gives information to brain and feeds one’s reactions.
My next step within this topic was to work on process that stands in the middle of ‘art design’, ‘reuse’ and ‘need’ triangle. I thought of building an instrument out of a cow lens, to use the functions that different parts of eyeball have - To maintain the use of parts, but creating a different tool out of those parts. Part way through the dissecting experience however I saw that a dead lens soon loses its clear transparency as the crystal structure starts to disintegrate.
I was working on simulating some of the ‘eye as a tool’ main purposes. For this I was playing around with a glass lens, sensor and a vibrating motor. I am in process of building an eye prototype, that responds to light. This step connects some fields of interests that I have, such as electronics to living organism, and built a bridge between biolab project and my masters’ programme research.