Red or pink sclera can be associated with poor health, while yellowing sclera can be a sign of jaundice or old age, Professor Elgar explains. “One feature of unpigmented sclera is that it can reveal a person’s health, so we can, perhaps unconsciously, gauge age and attractiveness from the colour of someone’s sclera,” says Prof Elgar. “Primates have pigmented sclera, so there’s barely any contrast between the iris and surrounding face, and although dogs have white sclera it’s not visible most of the time,” says evolutionary biologist at the University of Melbourne’s School of BioSciences Professor Mark Elgar. One reason may be that in humans the eyes aren’t just for seeing, but for communication. Humans don’t have pigmented sclera, suggesting that conspicuous irises that contrast against the rest of the face might be important. Who needs sunglasses when playing poker with eyes like these? Picture: Al Case/Flickr. And in those animals that do have white sclera, it is rarely visible. But in many animals the whites of the eye, known as the sclera, aren’t white at all but are pigmented, making the iris hard to distinguish. We can easily tell where someone is looking and often what someone is thinking. Humans are the only animals with obviously visible eye whites, with irises that are much more prominent and therefore readable. We’ll also have free loaded hot chocolates and eye themed sweet treats from the Woofy’s Eye Spy Cart near the Main Stage from 6pm-9pm (or until stocks run out) on Saturday 6 August.You know things are getting serious when a poker player slides sunglasses on to stop their eyes giving the game away.īut if you were playing a gorilla or a dog, the animal may not need sunglasses since their eyes are much harder to read, because you can’t see the whites of their eyes. All proceeds will go to the Fred Hollows Foundation Indigenous Australia Program. You can also purchase a blanket for a gold coin donation from the Woofy’s Eye Spy Cart near the Main Stage, before each film screening on Saturday 2 and 9 July, and Sunday 3 and 10 July. We’ll have the deckchairs out, so it’s time to bring a blanky and get cosy this winter, under the watchful gaze of The Eyes, for the Surveillance Film Festival at Fed Square.įree popcorn will be available from the Woofy’s Eye Spy Cart on Saturday 2 and 9 July, and Sunday 3 and 10 July at the start of each film and will be available until stocks run out. Whether you’re a junior cryptologist in the making, a bonafide Bond-aficionado or a card-carrying sci-fi buff, we’ve got a spooky, thrilling or mysterious film to unleash your inner spy. Their creations are quickly reaching as far as the Internet.Īs a studio, they have worked hard to make a name for themselves and their clients, but as artists, they just want to wake up everyone’s inner child with absurdly memorable tongue-in-cheek experiences.Īs the enormous Big Brother … er, Big Screen – looks down on us all from on high this winter, we’ll keep you rooted to the spot with a tantalisingly terrifying line-up of spy and surveillance-themed films. Since then, they have been to Coachella, Art Basel (a few times), popped-up in East London and even exhibited in Australia. But do you dare, when so many eyes are watching you?Ĭool Shit is a team of nonconformists making larger-than-life inflatable sculptures, event props and thought-provoking production concepts. This project “The Eyes” highlights this in a lighthearted, colourful and playful installation.Ĭreate the ultimate Instagram moment, with “The Eyes Fed Square” Instagram filter. It also talks to the fact that we ourselves willingly give up our personal information, interests, location and more in this new data rich society. It is a metaphor commenting on the constant surveillance that happens from external factors such as CCTV and the abundance of smartphone cameras. Over the last two decades our attention and ability to focus has dwindled and has been slowly consumed with the increasing barrage of available information and communication technology that craves our gaze and attention. It’s so creepy – you’re going to love it. The centrepiece of our Anything But Square: Under Surveillance program, The Eyes is a colossal inflatable sculpture of amorphous, ever-present, ever-watching eyes, by artist studio Cool Shit and commissioned by Fed Square. The hairs on the back of your neck stand up as you try to work out which of the eyes is actually looking at you – and then you realise: other, smaller, baby offshoot eyes are spying on you, from around the square.Įnter uncanny valley with The Eyes, this winter at Fed Square. As you stand in the centre of Fed Square, an 8 metre high sculpture of a head made of eyes – so many eyes! – looking down on you, what do you feel? Awkward? Afraid? Intrigued?
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