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

by John Geiger

John Geiger traces the history of how a visual phenomenon first described two hundred years ago by physiologist Jan Purkinje has become the basis of further scientific studies into how the visual brain works, and how its repercussions have spread widely into contemporary artistic and musical culture. The study of stroboscopic light began as a purely scientific study. Geiger's history begins at this point and goes on to study the transition to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932360018
• ISBN13: 9781932360011
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Soft Skull
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"