http://tnl-6.local/taxonomy/term/1239/0 en-US http://tnl-6.local/node/1366 <p>Pfister's hen is wearing prism's to deviate light. The experiment set out to find if the chicken, like humans, is able to correct an upside down world. It is. However, as a friend asked, is that a good or a bad sign, or can the chicken be considered smarter if it does it more quickly than us humans? Animals were used extensively in experimental research on the physiology of perception. In the literature from the 1950s and 1960s which I have been consulting those animals are always treated as 'things', as soulless non-entities. Yet maybe some animals showed some enthusiasm for the tasks.</p> <a href="/node/1366"><img src="http://tnl-6.local/files/images/pfisters_hen_small.thumbnail.jpg" alt="The Chicken as Visual Researcher" title="The Chicken as Visual Researcher" class="image image-thumbnail " width="82" height="100" /></a><div class="field field-type-text field-field-copyright"> <div class="field-label">Copyright:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> by the artist </div> </div> </div> <p><a href="http://tnl-6.local/node/1366" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://tnl-6.local/node/1366#comments Image New Tendencies Technopolitics Pfister's Hen Sat, 09 Apr 2011 06:08:28 +0000 Armin Medosch 1366 at http://tnl-6.local