Carnovsky is a pair of artists, Francesco Rugi and Silvia Quintanilla, who created the work above. As stated by Carnovsky (2012), this particular body of work is about experimenting with "the interaction between printed and light colours". In the first image, that's what it looks like under normal light. A chaotic mass of lines that you can't make proper sense of. You see one thing, but wait, there's more on another layer that you can't quite make out. However, each layer is revealed by shining red, green, or blue light on it.
For example, when you look at it there are three colours on the printed work: Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow. Each interacts with the colours of light: Red, Green, and Blue. This works within the limits of human colour vision. We see colours in RGB (red, green, blue) values. So every colour we can perceive are a mix of these three colours. When each light is shone on the printed work it would only show its corresponding complementary colour.
Red light shows the cyan layer on the printed work, green shows magenta, and blue reveals yellow.
I appreciate their work because it plays with the natural capabilities and limits of our vision. It could be interesting to look into what our eyes are capable of and our limitations as part of the interface and how people interact with the project. Could it also play with our perspective on how we see things and how we understand them?
Reference List
Carnovsky. (2012). RGB. Retrieved May 15, 2013, from http://www.carnovsky.com/RGB.htm
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