Caralie Cedarleaf

Perceptual Rivalries

A study of shifting perception

Binocular rivalry is a phenomenon of visual perception in which perception alternates between different images presented to each eye (Wikipedia).

While visiting Roden Crater and other James Turrell artworks, perception shifts from the awareness of the space and the experience to the experience of the space itself, and back again.

Research Questions

•How does perception alternate between awareness of the space and the experience to the experience itself?

•Is observation a personal or shared experience? Is perception?

•How do we observe others observing?

•Is the experience altered by others having the same (or a competing) experience?

•What type of connections can be made from “shared” experiences?

•How are awareness of an experience and the experience itself at odds?

Perceiving is Believing

April 2019

wood, stereoscopic viewers, led lights, printed pointcloud images

Goals (#goals (see left))

Allow viewers an opportunity to see themselves seeing.

Have an experience of a presence without an actual/physical presence.

Create a singular experience, that is shared through communication only. It can’t be seen at the same time.

Create an piece that isn’t able to be captured in a photograph.

Recent Artwork

The Psyche Posters

In 2017, I became a Psyche Inspired intern artist for the NASA Psyche mission. My great grandpa had worked on the Voyager spacecrafts and I was excited to continue that heritage in my family. (The Voyager Missions were an interesting precedent for the intersection of art and space research with the Golden Record aboard each craft.)

The left is my great grandpa's oil painting from the 50s/60s and below are my acrylic "posters" inspired by his painting and the pop art movement that coincided with NASA's early years.

The Psyche Posters cast images on the spaces in front and behind them when lit.

The projections are part of the work.

4x4.avi

DNA Origami / Biodesign Residency

The past year I was a resident artist at ASU's Biodesign Institute, collaborating on a sculpture for their atrium with Dr. Hao Yan and his lab. The lab works with synthetic DNA strands as building blocks to create programmable nano-structures. The entire field of research was conceived by Yan's advisor, Dr. Nadrian Seeman (NYU) when he was inspired by the MC Escher print "Depth."

In the lab, the researchers create complex patterns in 2D and test them with the AFM.

For the sculpture, 2D squares are the "building blocks" that make up this crystalized pattern. Into each panel, one part of the lab's actual DNA crystal will be laser-etched.

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