Ars Electronica Garden St. Stefan ob Stainz

Augenschein

The eye has always played a vital role in human history, whether as organ of vision or as pivotal cultural symbol in the arts across time. In digital and new media art especially, it becomes a “third eye”, that is, the camera that translates electromagnetic stimuli into light perceptions that give shape and colour, not unlike the sensory organ itself. The Ars Electronica Garden St. Stefan ob Stainz takes us on a journey to Sylvia Eckermann’s public art project augenschein. augenschein takes the eye as a symbol for how our society relates to vision and visualisation, in its encouraging and more dangerous aspects.