The difference between perception and understanding is, in rationalist hermeneutics (and in our trivial everyday life), flattened to what can be explained through measurements, evaluations, and interpretations based on past findings and experiences. However, people perceive significantly more than we understand*, which is why in the phasor project, the critical observation of the human perceptual apparatus is transferred into an intense bodily experience that impedes precise orientation in space and time as we understand it in linear models. With simultaneous effects that violate the principles of linear perceptual-experiential codifications, phasor disrupts the linear sequence of thought and thus the tyranny of Cartesian cogitation, enabling a simultaneous experience that demands an expanded awareness of multidimensionality.

The installation offers each visitor the opportunity to experience a complex audio-visual experience at a specific moment, deliberately designed to deceive our perception. A disk with multi-channel sound and light effects rotates around the participant’s head, constantly diverging and converging at three levels of rotation: the sound, light, and physical rotation of the disk. With the help of digital control and the ability to manage the independent speeds of all three rotations, the installation achieves a contradictory effect aimed at pushing the participant’s perception beyond their previous experiences.

“Everyone experiences far more than they understand. It is experience rather than understanding that influences behavior.”
— Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, 1964