Dressing The Air is the brainchild of the London-based artist Paul Schütze.

In a career spanning 30 years, Schütze has exhibited his photographic and installation works in galleries and museums around the world, released over thirty albums of original recordings, scored a number of films and performed numerous concerts. He has collaborated with artists such as James Turrell, Josiah McElheny and Isaac Julien and musicians as diverse as Bill Laswell, Raoul Björkenheim, Toshinori Kondo, Lol Coxhill and Jah Wobble.

Dressing The Air is a unique open resource that aims to enrich creative thinking by encouraging a multi-sensory approach. A constantly evolving archive and creative news feed, Dressing The Air monitors and reports on a diverse range of art-forms from cinema to sculpture, painting to furniture design, land-art to perfumery.

dressing the air: the bureau of sensory intelligence

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The other gaze - Computers Watching Movies - Benjamin Grosser
Benjamin Grosser

The other gaze - Computers Watching Movies - Benjamin Grosser

There might be no better insight into our human sensory habitudes and limitations than observing something non-human, observing. Computers Watching Movies is a very interesting project which sets a computer program to "watch" various famous scenes from cinema so we can, in turn, observe the machine's viewing "decisions". The very idea of this is intriguing and while any program must reflect the culture and thinking of the human which built it, there is sufficient 'autonomy' here to make for a very thought provoking experiment. 

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"He could then imagine himself between- decks in a brig, and gazed inquisitively at some ingenious mechanical fishes driven by clockwork, which moved backwards and forwards behind the port-hole window and got entangled in artificial seaweed."
- J.-K. Huysmans, 1884, Against Nature