Resolution
Telling things apart is the basis of perception, whether it relates to the sharpness of an image, the smoothness of a texture, or the saltiness of certain foods. Our abilities to discriminate between fine differences in information help us to navigate our environment. This evening, we examined the role resolution plays in how we see, hear, taste, and feel, and how our minds synthesize sensations into a coherent (if sometimes incorrect) understanding of the world. We explored perception exhibits from the Seeing and Mind collections, built pinhole cameras, and beheld the world in miniature through the Tiltshiftoscope exhibit. We also experimented with illusions that alter your body's spatial awareness, and offered activities such as taste tests and musical quizzes. Resolution featured a special installation of the Cubatron by Bay Area artist and engineer Mark Lottor. The Cubatron is a 3-D light sculpture made from 8-x-8-foot modular cubes, each containing 1,000 individually programmable RGB LEDs. Viewed from any direction—even from underneath—the Cubatron's thousands of programmed pixels paint exquisite arrays of color that cascade in spectacularly dynamic patterns. There was also an installation by media artist Ken Murphy, A History of the Sky, that let the viewer see the rhythms of weather, sunrises and sunsets, and other atmospheric events through time-lapse photography.
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