Names on walls
Opticians Display + Price List
Red box
Living examples
Category: Exhibition Planning
2050 In Sight
By 2050 Half of the world – around 5 billion people will need glasses as they will be nearsighted (Myopic).
Half the world will be myopic by 2050.
Names on boards/walls for runners taking part in a half marathon
Images from Paris and Oxford Half Marathon.
I thought it was clever how they easily showed and grouped the names so it was easier for people to find their names.
This would be beneficial so people wouldn’t spend ages finding their names for them to give up and decrease the interaction.
Regarding past generations myopia was viewed as a strength as individuals were able to perform close up tasks. This allowed for precise detailed work such as;
- Painting bibles
- Illuminating manuscripts
What did people do before glasses? (2022) NVISION Eye Centers. Available at: https://www.nvisioncenters.com/glasses/do-before-glasses/#:~:text=In%20fact%2C%20some%20past%20generations,painting%20Bibles%20and%20illuminating%20manuscripts. (Accessed: 19 March 2024).Â
Ideas
Creating a specific space of work
I thought about curating my space to make the audience do the 20-20-20 rule. Using objects, I can use my space in which to arrange the objects in an intentional and artful way so people can be guided through the 20-20-20 rule so they are interacting with the topic. I want them to immerse themselves.
The environment that my installation focuses on is: Indoor and outdoor.
- How can I convey a message through the way these items are placed in their environment?
- How can I create a message with my installation
- What is my environment going to be?
- How can I place objects within the space to speak to the audience?
- How can I arrange objects to create a visual message.
- Where does my path of objects begin and end?
- What feeling do my chosen objects evoke?
NARRATIVE
Immersive Art
- Interactivity
- Experiential engagement
- Immersive experience
Creative expression
Designing an environment.
The different places we find objects can influence the way we look at the objects (TATE).
Marcel Duchamp
He created a new thought for objects. Duchamp challenged people to think about art in new ways.
His work ‘readymades‘ (art that is ready-made) didn’t need to be created with his own hands, they were already existing works.
Man Ray
Uncanny objects
Man Ray added a photograph of an eye onto a metronome making the object strangely unsettling. He made the sculpture after his girlfriend left him so the object proposes the difficulty he had in forgetting her.
Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud’s theory
The theory suggests that ordinary, everyday objects become unsettling or disturbing if presented in unexpected ways or placed in unexpected situations.
Lettering on everyday objects
Prototypes
I played around with different concepts.
Bibliography
Farr, K. (2018) Analyzing the elements of art | five ways to think about space, The New York Times. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/learning/lesson-plans/analyzing-the-elements-of-art-five-ways-to-think-about-space.html (Accessed: 26 February 2024).
Tate (no date) Who is Marcel Duchamp?, WHO IS MARCEL DUCHAMP? Available at: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/who-is/who-marcel-duchamp (Accessed: 26 February 2024).
Famous Impressionist artists
Claude Monet and Edgar Degas – both artists struggled with cataracts and retinal disease, which effected their view of the world and how they explained it on their famous canvases.
Cézanne and Pissarro were myopic (Good Vision For Life (2018).
Cézanne
According to the book ‘The World Through Blunted Sight’ Cézanne was myopic. We can compare the crispness of Cézanne’s landscapes to his still-life paintings of objects.
Myopia: a common vision condition in which near objects appear clear, but objects farther away look blurry.
This gave me an idea of photographing images which the further the image is away it is blurry. The closer – how clear it is. Due to the exhibition being in Penryn – Cornwall I thought about keeping the theme of the coast and taking images of beaches.
I could take images like below to show the different images and the effects of myopia. It’s a gallery of images with a hidden message within every image.
An article that I read directed me to the book ‘The World Through Blunted Sight’ I read the book and made notes.
I wanted to read this book to see if I could understand a different perspective of sight which could influence the way I create a design artefact for the exhibition.
Reading the book
Reading the book made me think of glasses and how to control what people see using glasses.
Thinking about this further I found through research that when wearing reading glasses it makes distances look blurry. I don’t understand prescriptions etc so I thought I would put myself in the position of testing out different visions.
I went on amazon and ordered two sets of reading glasses.
One pair thats pink – which is the lowest magnification
The other pair thats blue – which is the highest magnification
Through this experimentation I am able to understand how vision works and how I could control this for the audience by putting myself in the scenario.
“Where does an artists’ physical vision end, and their creative vision begin?”
(Boyle, 2023)
Bibliography
Good Vision For Life (2018) Canvases reveal how famous artists with eye diseases saw the world. Available at: https://goodvisionforlife.com.au/2018/05/16/canvases-reveal-famous-artists-eye-diseases-see-world/#:~:text=Impressionist%20artists%20Claude%20Monet%20(1840,it%20on%20their%20famous%20canvases. (Accessed: 26 February 2024).
Boyle, L. (2023) The world we see, part 2: ‘what an eye!’, S Y N A P S I S. Available at: https://medicalhealthhumanities.com/2017/12/05/wws-p2-what-an-eye/ (Accessed: 26 February 2024).
Group Meet up
My group and I met up today to talk about our ideas for the exhibition. We threw concept ideas around.
As a starter we came up with the name/title called: Precipice: Transforming numbers into narratives.
I first gathered
Talk with Lizzy
By 2050 half of the world’s population will be myopic
Source
Having a chat with Lizzy on the 20th Feb 2024 we talked about how she had no knowledge about how the duration of time spent indoors vs outdoors has an affect on myopia. The importance of spending more time outdoors to try prevent myopia is important and I thought it would be an information to show or educate people on.
She mentioned about exploring the exhibition space and how I could design an interactive surrounding that enhances my topic on myopia relating to the outdoor vs indoor.
I had the idea of creating a space that when you are outside everything is clear, but when you are inside everything you see is blurry.
I could create a ‘photography exhibition’ showing all the photography shown is blurry which gives the impression that their focus is wrong. In order to do this I would have to isolate the audience from the other exhibition as they would know their eyesight is correct whilst looking at the others work. So I would have to trick them to think they are seeing blurry.
Or I could do this by creating glasses that blur them.
I could create glasses that when worn indoor the glasses are blurry but when you step outside it’s clear. This reminded me of glasses that adapt to sunlight.
Research
“Children are more susceptible to eye damage from UV light than adults“
(HOYA)
When looking at images I got directed to a website called HOYA that offers glasses for slowing of myopia progression and protection from intense sunlight.
Myopia is most fast regarding under 10 years of age.
Article 1
When reading an article about the rise of myopia and the reasons why, especially among children I printed off and highlighted the important bits of the article which should be beneficial for me either to use or educate people on which could influence my overall design piece.
The one thing that I found interesting was the 20-20-20 rule.
20 minutes
(Rascoe & Al-Shalchi, 2023)
20-Second break
20 feet or more away
This gave me the idea of placing objects 20 feet away while displaying a big clock which would tells you when 20 mins is up, 20 mins to have a break (which directs you to go outside) and then another alarm that tells you to look at something which in my space everything would be calculated to be 20 feet away. So when you look at an object within my space it already is 20 feet or more away.
Looking back at the article it talks about wavelengths and spectrum of light so when the alarm goes off it could project a light that reduces or helps with Myopia.
Article 2
UK children spend longer looking at a screen than the average full-time working adult spends at work
Source
Based on clinical trials outcomes, spending time outdoors reduces the relative risk of incident myopia by 24-39%
Dhakal, R., Shah, R., Huntjens, B., Verkicharla, P.K. and Lawrenson, J.G., 2022
Increased exposure to outdoor light reduces myopia development
Bibliography
HOYA (no date) MiYOSMART myopia sunglasses protection for sunlight, MiYOSMART Sun. Available at: https://www.hoyavision.com/vision-products/miyosmart/miyosmart-sun/ (Accessed: 20 February 2024).
Rascoe, A. and Al-Shalchi, H. (2023) Why myopia is becoming increasingly common among kids and adults. Available at: https://www.npr.org/2023/07/23/1189659924/why-myopia-is-becoming-increasingly-common-among-kids-and-adults#:~:text=Myopia%2C%20or%20nearsightedness%2C%20is%20on,David%20Epley. (Accessed: 22 February 2024).
Allen , M. (no date) CPD archive, Is myopia the consequence of our lifestyles? Available at: https://www.opticianonline.net/cpd-archive/6631 (Accessed: 22 February 2024).
DQ Institute (no date) British children spend almost two days a week staring at screens, the second highest of all countries surveyed in first-ever Global Child Online Safety index, British children spend almost two days a week staring at screens, the second highest of all countries surveyed in first-ever global Child Online Safety Index. Available at: https://www.dqinstitute.org/2021/12/10/british-children-spend-almost-two-days-a-week-staring-at-screens-the-second-highest-of-all-countries-surveyed-in-first-ever-global-child-online-safety-index/ (Accessed: 22 February 2024).
Dhakal, R., Shah, R., Huntjens, B., Verkicharla, P.K. and Lawrenson, J.G., 2022. Time spent outdoors as an intervention for myopia prevention and control in children: an overview of systematic reviews. Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 42(3), pp.545-558.
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