Visual Field Exhibition
Kismet 2 Gallery
71 4th Street, Troy, NY 12180
Opening Reception
August 27, 2010 from 5:00 p.m. -9:00 p.m.
Coinciding with Troy Night Out
Free and Open to the Public
Closing Reception
September 24, 2010 from 5:00 p.m. – 9:00p.m.
Coinciding with Troy Night Out
Free and Open to the Public
The Visual Field Exhibit features photographic works by
Cheryl J. Gowie and Katherine F. Wardle
“The term visual field is sometimes used as a synonym for field of view, though they do not designate the same thing. The visual field is the "spatial array of visual sensations available to observation in introspectionist psychological experiments"[1], while 'field of view' "refers to the physical objects and light sources in the external world that impinge the retina." In other words, field of view is everything that (at a given time) causes light to fall onto the retina. This input is processed by the visual system, which computes the visual field as the output.
The term is often used in optometry and ophthalmology, where a visual field test is used to determine whether the visual field is affected by diseases that cause local scotoma or a more extensive loss of vision or a reduction in sensitivity (threshold).” (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_field)
