Transmission- Patrisha (Trish) Lyons

Lyons topics of the talk were optical illusions and figure ground and technology. the first half of the talk she spent talking about Penrose Stairs and showed us clips from animals in nature hat camoflaged themselves. There was one clip of an ocutipus that was really good, you can probably find it on youtube. She also showed us this one clip by Alvin Lucier, called I Am Sitting In A Room (1969). It is 45 minutes long and in the video the american composer, who has a strutter records his voice in a room. He then plays the recording in the same room and records the recording. He does this a number of times until you just get sound which is the resonence of the room. Which I think is pretty cool. The second half she spent talking about how all humans are machines, just made from flesh and blood instead. she also talked about the film Blade Runner with Harrison Ford, and how inorder to figure out whether someone is a cyborg he asked them about their relationship to animals. Not sure how this was all meant to relate to agency, but oh well.