“Oog van Atlas” is a light artwork by Philip Ross, Thijs Koenraadt, Kelvin Keultjes (Informatica TU/e), Jesper Kapteijns (Industrial Design and 4 others presented at GLOW Eindhoven 2021 in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
How do we see? How does light contribute to sight? Humanity has researched these questions for millennia, and the answers have continuously changed. In Ancient Greece, nearly 2500 years ago, Empedocles answered this question as follows: We see through sending a special kind of light, “Visual Fire”, out of our eyes.
Programme information from GLOW Eindhoven. Short excerpt quoted for reference; see the original page for full text, images and credits.