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zagreb walk experiment, Sept. 8. |
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Friday, 11 September 2009 |
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A positive answer to Molyneux's problem suggests that a person can recognize spatial features of objects by sight even in the case when this person has experienced these objects only by touch before. Such a transmodal recognition would apply to other modalities as well, for example vision and hearing (an assumption the project vOICe is building on). To explore the transmodality between walking (as larger scale a sensomotoric experience in analogy to touch) and vision I initiated a small experiment with my fellows from the Institut für Raumexperimente. The exercise consisted of walking an unknown route of about 1 km blindfolded and led by a navigator. After performing the walk the blindfolded person had to draw the shape of the walked route or recognize it on a printout showing different shapes. The walk was performed in Zagreb on following routes: link to map.
 The main purpose of our Zagreb visit was to join the opening of Ivana Franke's exhibition "Lability" at the Art pavilion in Zagreb. More documentation about the amazing programs in Zagreb and the walk will follow soon.
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