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Outward Translations

其他書名	An Exploration of Externalized Imagery
出版	School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2014
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=4aPJoAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This essay addresses questions of the relationship between images and memory, and the way in which these different modes of imagery relate to truth. After beginning with a personal anecdote describing an early memory from childhood, I will introduce three types of images. These are internal mind images, photographs, and created externalized imagery. Although I separate images here in order to talk about them in a dynamic fashion, these image "types" are very much related. I will spend one section discussing the complex relationships between these categories, exploring how they interact with and inform one another. My focus here, though, is an exploration of the third type of image, the externalized one. I will investigate different examples of externalized imagery including paintings from memory, dream journals, and Carl Jung's visual manuscript, The Red Book. After analyzing these case studies in depth, I discuss a new development in neuroscience technology: Yukiyasu Kamitani's current research project, an attempt to use computers to decode dream content in the form of legible images. This type of dream-reading, image-making technology would create an entirely new modality that allows for externalizing the internal image. I will explore the reasons why this technological novelty is so deeply fascinating and attractive to the public eye. Kamitani's dream-reader may be viewed as having more scientific, accurate depictions of internal imagery than can be achieved through other mediums. However, I will argue that while Kamitani's machinery would allow for a new modality of representation, it would not hold any more "truth" or validity than would a painting or a journal entry.