Saccade - 16th media art biennale WRO
sound installation/site-specific architecture concept
8-channel sound installation in the context of the architecture and acoustics of the building of the Library of the University of Wrocław explores the relationship between visible and audible senses.
As a the space-time continuum deconstruction is inspired by saccade movement of the human eye. A saccade is the quick, simultaneous movement of both eyes between two phases of fixation in the same direction. The phenomenon can be associated with a shift in the frequency of an emitted signal or a movement of a body part or device. Controlled cortically by the frontal eye fields (FEF), or subcortically by the superior colliculus, saccades serve as a mechanism for fixation, rapid eye movement, and the fast phase of optokinetic nystagmus. The word appears to have been coined in the 1880s by French ophthalmologist Émile Javal, who used a mirror on one side of a page to observe eye movement in silent reading, and found that it involves a succession of discontinuous individual movements.
The new building of the Library of the University of Wrocław is located on the boulevards on the Odra river in the quarter between ul. Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, and ul. Szczytnicka.The building was designed in the form of two compact blocks, both parts are separated by a pedestrian passage, from which the main entrance to the Library building was designed.
area of the premises of the building 37,652 m2
including:
– the area of the library rooms is 22,077 m2
– area of service rooms 992 m2
– area of auxiliary rooms 14,583 m2, building area 7,686 m2, building volume 179,861 m3, the area of the study area is 2.2 ha