ZEITGEIST: MOVING FORWARD, OFFICIAL RELEASE, 2011
Double Vision is one of the earliest and best known video works by American (born 1937) artist Peter Campus. Running 14 minutes and 22 seconds, It is a single channel video created with two video cameras fed through a mixer, providing the effect of a photographic double exposure. The video is divided into seven parts, each referencing a phenomenal mode of perception or form of biological sight. Each part utilizes a different configuration of the video cameras to film the interior of a small loft space. It opens with the title Double Vision superimposed over a photograph of a fundus (the back layer of the retina) taken through an ophthalmoscope. Campus described the video as an exploration of double or twocamera images, relating to the evolution of sight in animals. The tape begins with an uncoordinated twocamera image and works its way up to an eyebrain model, always conscious of how this model differed from its subject Campus s contemporary Bill Viola wrote in Art in America: quot
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