Rhodopsin Record Release
The reality-bending installation is a collaboration between A Ship in the Woods director RJ, Salk Institute neurobiologist John Reynolds, sound artist Greg Smaller, a design team from New School of Architecture + Design and researcher Daw-An Wu. Based on the research of Patrick Cavanagh, who studies visual phenomena, Rhodopsin aims to encourage us to think about the process of perception and consider the brain’s role in actively constructing, rather than simply relaying, reality. Participants will experience a series of rich visual percepts that emerge through the interplay that takes place between our proprioceptive bodily sense and a visual system that is activated in total darkness. A special limited edition LP, Rhodopsin, is a collection of ambient work that draws from the
Rhodopsin installation.