Kiesler's Vision Machine is the result of intense studies on the viewers' processes of perception and powers of imagination, research he undertook since his 1937 Laboratory for Design Correlation. Kiesler plans Vision Machine as an audio-visual object to demonstrate and explain the process of perception. In a report to the Dean of Architecture in 1939, he writes:Theoretical study on aesthetics, with special reference to the human eye as medium of perception. […] Design of a machine for practical demonstration of optical perception, showing the correlative forces of vision.
From: Frederick Kiesler, Report on the Laboratory for Design Correlation, typescript 1939.
