Exhibition Description

Chapman Holly

I Spy With My Little Eye

“I Spy With My Little Eye” is an interactive object that excites and manipulates the sense of sight. With inspiration from kaleidoscopes, telescopes and Viewmasters, I have designed an object that viewers look through, and the way they see the world around them is warped, distorted and manipulated through several different filters. I investigated a number of ways to manipulate the sight and incorporated the most successful into my object. The design is interactive, allowing the user to change the filters as they wish and experiment for themselves, as they experience the familiar world around them through their own eyes but in different ways to what they see everyday. My object is designed to be easy to interact with, aesthetically pleasing and intrigue the user through an exciting sight experience. The world around us has never looked so exciting!

Instruction

Remove any of the three larger cylindrical tubes from the slots in the box and look through them, taking notice of all details and rotating the cylinder as well as moving where you look. These have each been designed in a different way to manipulate the way you can see the world around you. Now take any of the three smaller cylinders or “lids” and slide this on top of the larger one and look through it. This allows you to combine filters and manipulate what you are viewing even further. Experiment with the other lids, and next do the same with the other cylinders, trying all the combinations of filters, each manipulating your sight in a different way from the next as you view the world around you.