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Figure & Ground
Issue 02
On ambiguity and indeterminacy: bistable images, the squeegee, and the brain's refusal to leave a picture undecided.
Critical Analysis
The Neural Gap: Visual Ambiguity & Indeterminacy
Rubin's vase, Richter's squeegee: what bistable images reveal about the brain's refusal to leave a picture undecided.
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David Howes - The Shifting Sensorium: Aisthesis And Hyperaesthesia
A reading list for the patient eye — printed in full in the e-book.
Critical Analysis
THE LATENT VALIDITY OF ALTERNATIVE
The painting does not wait to be translated. It already knows something, and it knows it in a register that propositional language reaches only with difficulty.
Interview
In the Studio: A Conversation with Bich Thuy
The artist on estrangement as a gift, and why the distance between the public and the work is where aesthetic experience begins.
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The Neural Gap: Visual Ambiguity & Indeterminacy
Rubin's vase, Richter's squeegee: what bistable images reveal about the brain's refusal to leave a picture undecided.
David Howes - The Shifting Sensorium: Aisthesis And Hyperaesthesia
A reading list for the patient eye — printed in full in the e-book.
THE LATENT VALIDITY OF ALTERNATIVE
The painting does not wait to be translated. It already knows something, and it knows it in a register that propositional language reaches only with difficulty.
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