Butterfly Eye – Vision and Visuality

Programme of Urban Encounters 2017: Cartographies - 11 November 2017.  Clore Auditorium, Tate Britain.

Mapping is something we do on an everyday basis to make sense of the space in front, to the side, above, below and to a degree behind us. We are all quotidian cartographers, largely unaware of the fact that human vision is a picture made of two different inputs that are coherently compiled through the optic nerve and the brain. The Butterfly Eye is a simple intervention in the normal binocular aspect of human vision. Using a mirroring device held in front of the eyes, participants experienced a separation of their binocular vision, a new way of mapping the space around them. By Jean McNeil and Diego Ferrari.

A project by artist Diego Ferrari and Architect Matei Mitrache.  School of Film & Photography Kingston University and UCL Bartlett School of Architecture.

The Urban Encounters programme is organised by Paul Halliday, Founding Director of the Urban Photographers Association and Creative Director of UrbanPhotoFest, and Diego Ferrari.