World beyond the horizon: Reconstructing the complexity of the 'normal' experience. ...

• Main Author: Bourke, SF
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: University Of Tasmania 2023
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25959/23211524; https://figshare.utas.edu.au/articles/thesis/World_beyond_the_horizon_Reconstructing_the_complexity_of_the_normal_experience_/23211524

World Beyond the Horizon explores the way people witness and experience variations of light falling on a landscape. To support the investigation I used the case study of the 1979 Mt Erebus aviation disaster in Antarctica, to explore degraded visual functioning, a condition resulting from variable perceptual experiences formed through the senses. The landscape of Northern Tasmania was surveyed from the cockpit of an aircraft ‚Äö- the 'flight view', where sound recordings and video data were collected to study the extent to which light conditions may affect the process of perception. The work of John Constable and Joseph Turner who, through their own art practices, pioneered new ways to depict light in the 1800's, have been central to my investigation. In his paintings, Constable predicts changing weather patterns, through time, by referring to the science of meteorology. By contrast, Turner's paintings are freely abstract, atmospheric and immediate with recognisable forms disappearing almost entirely, leaving ...