Anthony Casey’s ‘COLOUR’ presentation at Creative Process No.3, Dec 2014, Liverpool. Anthony has very kindly made available on Speakerdeck https://speakerdeck.com/anthony_casey/colour
science has given us a whole lot of wonderful new colors, with strange, exciting names like red!, orange!, green!, and pink!, Harry. We're not stuck any more with just black, gray and white! Isn’t that good news, Harry?” Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions - 1973
meteor's strange spectrum, was almost impossible to describe; and it was only by analogy that they called it colour at all.” H.P. Lovecraft - The Colour Out of Space (1927)
or pink zuzu = dark colours including reds vapa = light colours and some shades of yellow buru = is some shades of green dambu = other shades of green, red and brown
similar - mistakes were based on perceptual distances between colors rather than a given set of predetermined categories, arguing against an innate origin for the 11 basic color terms of English. 2. Children in both cultures didn't acquire color terms in any particular, predictable order-such as the universalist idea that the primary colors of red, blue, green and yellow are learned first. 3. As both Himba and English children started learning their cultures' color terms, the link between color memory and color language increased. Their rapid perceptual divergence once they acquired color terms strongly suggests that cognitive color categories are learned rather than innate, according to the authors. Comparing Huimba tribe and children in Britain American Psychological Association - ‘Hues and Views’
If something seems strange, you question it; but if the outside world is too distant to use as a comparison then nothing seems strange.” Alex Garland, The Beach
Liz West - http://www.liz-west.com/ David Batchelor - http://www.davidbatchelor.co.uk/ Norman Mclaren - A Phantasy in Colors - https://vimeo.com/153788367 Malcolm Le Grice - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz3RStIfv9M Mazviita Chirimuuta - Outside Colour - https://outsidecolour.net/ Aatish Bhatia - The crayola-fication of the world - http://www.empiricalzeal.com/ 2012/06/05/the-crayola-fication-of-the-world-how-we-gave-colors-names-and-it- messed-with-our-brains-part-i/