Butterfly Eye

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Butterfly Eye - Vision and Visuality

Diego Ferrari and Matei Mitrache

Urban Encounters 2017 : Cartographies
Saturday 11 November 2017, 10.30 - 17.30
Clore Auditorium, Tate Britain

For its 10th anniversary, Urban Encounters will explore Cartographies - how we make sense of places through visual, sonic and photographic representations, across a variety of global contexts. Bringing together a wide range of international artists, urban theorists and cultural activists, the programme focuses on the politics of representation, history and memory, and what we count as knowledge.

Mapping is something we do on an everyday basis to make sense of the space in front, to the side, above, below and to a degree behind us. We are all quotidian cartographers, largely unaware of the fact that human vision is a picture made of two different inputs that are coherently compiled through the optic nerve and the brain. The Butterfly Eye is a simple intervention in the normal binocular aspect of human vision. Using a mirroring device held in front of the eyes, participants will experience a separation of their binocular vision, a new way of mapping the space around them.

Please visit the Tate website to explore the full programme and purchase tickets. Urban Encounters is part of the five-day UrbanPhotoFest programme. See www.urbanphotofest.org for further details.

For further information on the artists’ portfolios visit:
www.diegoferrari.com and
www.behance.net/mateimitrache.