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Chapel of Extreme Experience: A Short History of Stroboscopic Light and the Dream Machine

By John Geiger

Book information

Publisher
Soft Skull Press
Year
2003
ISBN
1932360018, 9781932360011
Open Library ID
OL8808430M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
30 MB (31302313 bytes)
Pages
121\121
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Chapel of Extreme Experience is an engrossing look at flicker potentials — a visual phenomenon which became the basis of scientific studies into how the visual brain works. In the 1960s the Dream Machine was developed to reproduce this phenomenon, emitting pulses of light and projecting patterns that produced kaleidoscopic images and even hallucinations. This book follows the interest in flicker, from its scientific underpinnings to its role in the countercultural art scene. This is a fascinating look at the Dream Machine and its influence on major cultural figures like William S. Burroughs, Aldous Huxley, and Allen Ginsberg who all experienced and wrote about the "flicker effect." Photographs are featured.

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