“We live nowadays in a world of images, moving images. Our eyes, used to “surfing”, gliding on the surface, will not be set on an inanimate object for a long time. For our eyes to rest on it for a little longer, looking must gain the properties of surfing: roles will then reverse, eyes will stop in one place but the motion will not cease”
– Zygmunt Bauman, Miedzy chwilą a pięknem. O sztuce w rozpędzonym świecie (Between the moment and beauty. On art in the world at full speed), Łódź 2010, p.20
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Perception – 2015
We perceive the world with our senses, but the development of technology, digitization of life and the pace of everyday life means that it is becoming increasingly difficult to perceive reality with all our senses. Some of them get slowly turned off or drowned by external factors and the information buzz. Our perception is more and more frequently limited only to visual stimuli. We often only glide our eyes over various screens, pictures, headlines, without going deeper and sensing the subject. Sometimes we can’t even hold our glance in one point for an extended period of time. This is why moving images start winning over static ones…
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