The Observer Effect exhibition was the culmination of a collaborative research project with artist Johanna Bolton. The exhibition explored the process of observation as artistic investigation and was informed by the quantum theory of the same name, which proposes that simply through the process of observing, an observer alters the thing they are looking at. Detailed investigations into everyday objects, forms and occurrences revealed their underlying complexity and depth and suggested that the observer is equally altered through the act of observation.
A specimen drawer from the Collection from the Museum of Light displays archived light samples.
A visitor observes the 365 observations of light from A Year of Light, a project undertaken for the International Year of Light 2015
The exhibition included works from Michaela’s recent Daylight Observations project, in which changes in the luminance, intensity and colour of daylight are recorded from selected locations over a specified duration.
The 365 observations of light, 365 images for Michaela’s recent project A Year of Light. An image/observation of light was posted each day on Twitter throughout 2015 for the International Year of Light.
Detail of the images from the A Year of Light project.
Daylight Observations No.1 (Summer, July 2015) and No.2 (Winter, December 2015).
Detail from Daylight Observation No.1 (Summer, July 2015).