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Amie//Current Reading on Haptic Visuality - The Skin of the Film

 

 

 


"Haptic visuality does not depend on the viewer identifying with a recognizable figure/character but on a more sensuous bodily relationship between the viewer and the subject. Without representational mediation, the relationship between viewer and image is less one of viewer-engaging-object, than as a "dynamic subjectivity between looker and image." The haptic image is "less complete," requiring the viewer to contemplate the image as a material presence rather than an easily identifiable cog in a narrative wheel. By contrast, the optical image comes equipped with all the resources necessary to be complete, self-sufficient, and legible."

"Based on the textual descriptions provided by Marks, the formal and stylistic properties of haptic visuality in cinema include: synesthetic effects; changes in focus, graininess, underand overexposure, unclear imagery, and decaying film and video; optical printing and scratching on the emulsion; video effects and formats such as Pixelvision; the use of extreme close-ups, and alternating between film/video media. (To imagine a painting analogy, think of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting as haptic cinema, and 19th Century realist painting as optical cinema)."

 

This research has given me more direction and ideas in terms of the formal and stylistic properties of haptic visuality and the kinds of shots I will be looking for when gathering footage to include in my video.

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My work explores the relationship between the co-operation of the senses and human consciousness; how humans interact with the world and in particular recording my interaction with the world through video, sound, sculpture, and installation and then creating an unusual way of viewing that world. When we interact with our environment, we use our senses to navigate not only our outside world but also our inside world. Our perceptions of our outside world can be altered by what is occurring in our inside world; our emotions, learnt behaviors, memories and everything that makes us human. As an artist I explore the relationship between the body, technology and nature by challenging the senses and perception of the viewer. By exploring the way humans interact with the world around them, I create multi-sensory installations using video and sound, how the video can be used as a medium and how the audience themselves become the medium and process for my discovery.

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