In Pirate, produced during Feng Chen's residency at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, the artist asks viewers to watch the movie with only one eye because he uses a new technology...
In Pirate, produced during Feng Chen's residency at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, the artist asks viewers to watch the movie with only one eye because he uses a new technology that challenges peoples’ visual and sensory experience. The audience is able to see three-dimensional images with one eye, but the video as depicted through the pirate’s perspective is flat.
A new visual experience leads to Feng Chen contemplate what else is possible, such as the creation of new visual effects. It has also caused him to rethink the impact of what we see in our everyday lives on our overall experience. The light information received from our retina is full of data that informs our worldview and subconscious. This is what he wants to study and explore.