By The New Yorker October 7, 2010 The New Museum's retrospective of the British artist, poet, and performer Brion Gysin closed on October 3rd, but the hypnotic pleasures of his most famous achievement, "Dream Machine" — a kinetic light sculpture, conceived in 1961, once described as "the first art object to be seen with the eyes closed" — are now available to anyone with an iPhone.
Re-creation is required for the object to be seen as a work of art.
But if we then assume that it is an essential property of visual perception to see, visual perception must be able to function as its own object, as otherwise there might be no other object to be seen.
Writers cannot fairly object to being seen in this way.
My dog, Porgy, although he might object to being seen as a possession.
While Gordon Brown has been doing his press conference (you can read all about it here) Caroline Flint has issued a statement explaining that she resigned as Europe minister because she objected to being seen as "female window dressing".
They're all talking and moving around like people you could well be having dinner with later (if you wouldn't object to being seen with companions in off-the-peg clothes from the 1970's, a highly unfortunate period for fashion).
Seung Lee, a 26-year-old Berkeley resident who was at the Friday night event just before the fire started, said wood and flammable objects were to be seen throughout the space.
In the later project of constructing matter, from 1914 on, beginning with Our Knowledge of the External World (Russell 1914b), material objects come to be seen as collections of sense data, than of "sensibilia".
