Exhibition “per video” is not a festival of contemporary videoart, as the name could suggest, but a particular probe of history and present of human eye, exhibition of paintings, objects, photographs and books. Modality of the visual perception in affecting human cognition, with regard to the role of science and technics in that complicated relation is the key topic of the show. The exhibition introduce contemporary art together with books from the historic fund of National Library of Technology or historical scientific machines. Legendary contact lenses machine by prof. Otto Wichterle will be part of the show as well as rennaisance impression – Opticæ Thesavrvs – book of famous medieval scientist called Alhazen.
