Guided Saccade is a new conceptual approach to abstract art using the new media of digital technology. Like the modernist artists of the 1960s, such as Guido Molinari and Sol LeWitt, who focused on colour and form as their main subject, Matthew used software code to explore the intersection of colour, light and human perception.
The Guided Saccade title refers to the rapid movement of the eye between the rest positions from one still image to another. In the same way that our eyes move when we read lines of text, our eyes also move when we read and perceive images. This work of art studies human physiology and explores how we read and perceive images, movement and pattern changes.
- Kerry Goodfellow, ARBZ Visual Arts Collection