‘my roof falls on top of me but now i can see the sky’
Vasario 16
Kabul
Istanbul
Mariana:
Can you imagine yourself as a tapestry, or as a sphere that doesn’t need to spin to show infinite views?
Figures don’t lie, but liars can figure.
Our hologram is a collection of objects, witnesses of impossible facts, such as the meteorite that extinguished the dinosaurs, a man who ate himself, an analog listening device, a palm tree on the snow.
An absolute or perfectly realized holography would abolish the distinction between representation and reality, between the subjective thinking or knowing of things and their objective being. Holography presents a mental image of its subject.
Seeing around is part of seeing it.
Every point on the object is registered at once on every point of the plate, and the imaginary quality of the three dimensional space is represented as a personal focal point existing OUTSIDE of the observer.
I imagine the puzzle as a tapestry, or a puzzle contained on a sphere, or the objects rendered separately, about to come together.
Mariana:
I think the idea of hologram is an ancient one, and it’s most famous materialization is the one referred as 3d photography.
Even this attempt is a failed one, as in principle holography is about an impossible representation of time and space.
I was reading yesterday about a conversation that Einstein and the Philosopher Henri Bergson had once, to discuss scientific time against philosophical time.
The whole discussion evolved around a tenth of a second, which is the minimum reaction-perception time for human beings. For Einstein, philosophical time doesn’t exist, and it is just a moment in between perception time and ‘real’ or scientific time.
Bergson thought that it was important to defend philosophical time, as the scientific discourse specially after Einstein’s theory of relativity seemed to replace philosophy.
I think that this moment in between, this tenth of a second is the space of our holographic imagination, almost its limit.
John:
I wonder: do animals respond to holograms? (Some pets supposedly “watch” TV.) And what about people with one eye that can’t see depth?
Do they see depth in a hologram?
The train that wasn’t there
“It is an epistemological fallacy to think that we can stand outside of what we observe, or observe without distortion, what is alien to our perspective.” (Mary Crane, Surface, Depth, and the Spatial Imaginary: A Cognitive Reading of The Political Unconscious)
Gintaras:
In my mind I have this image of space transforming like when being looked through some glass object (a looking glass?). So one doesn’t see the thing itself but just the effect (breaking the homogenous space into multiple moments and surfaces) it produces.
I don’t know of how it can spring from something, but there’s surely a way to make it as a part of narrative.
Another interesting thing to see would be a 2D image represented in hologram. I wonder how would it look. Like a drawing that one perhaps is walking around and seeing it stretch or shrink.
