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One red, green and blue lightsensor measures light as you point your finger at something. It feeds back the color information through two beams of light that shine straight into your eyes . Your mode of recognition is reduced down to the primaries of light as they reach your eyes before the construction of meaning begins.

Monochromeye is a portable device that enhances low resolution vision. A fingerholder contains one red, one green and one blue lightsensor that read the environment as you point at it. It feeds back the color information to two tricolored (RGB) light diodes that emit two beams of light straight into the viewers eyes. At such a low resolution, the viewer can only get color readings. They do not contain any information beyond the color that is registered at the point in space where the viewer points his finger.

Monochomeye is one of several optical machines that were built in an art driven research project about light and perception called Occular Witness. The project attempts to stake out the limits of human vision and it examines how information is malleable and how meaning is formed through image in a time when information is abundant and our culture is saturated with layers of processed imagery.

The breakdown of image reduces the information down to its basic elements - photons of light, and forces the viewer to make a fresh reconstruction of what he is witnessing. Deprived of the familiar guidelines that encode his field of vision towards a production of meaning - formal, contextual or other similar modes of recognition - he must rely on his deprived senses as he moves through the world.

Monochromeye. Photo: Loove Broms. PA220066-corrected.tif (7.6 MB)	Monochromeye. Photo: Inga Palmer. user1.jpg (1.4 MB)	Monochromeye. Photo: Per Erik Adamsson hog2.tif (24.0 MB)
Monochromeye. croppedmonomanHR.jpg (452k)	Head of Smart studio, Ingvar Sjöberg and Lars-Gunnar Wigemark from the Swedish embassy in Moscow (wearing monochromeye). Photo: M'ars Gallery. DSCF1151.jpg (114 kB) monomanHR.jpg (1.6MB)	A visitor wearing the monochromeye in Moscow. Photo: M'ars Gallery. DSCF1188.jpg (98 kB)
Monochromeye on table. Photo: Per Erik Adamsson monochromeye2.tif (25 MB)	Monochromeye. Photo: Pernilla Edholm. oslo19.jpg

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KEYWORDS
information reduction · image overflow · data plasticity

PEOPLE
Arijana Kajfes · Alberto Frigo · Peter Lundén · Fredrik Petersson

LINKS
Occular Witness

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