How we look at the world has been a serious preoccupation of media artists. Sometimes the investigations of perception take on a formal bent, perhaps one that is cognitive, or even anthropologic. Skip Blumberg's joyous Flying Morning Glory (1985, 4 mins) captures with everyday wonder a moment of street life in Thailand as a curbside chef displays his wares. Kathy High's I Need Your Full Cooperation (1989, 28 mins) concentrates on the enforced docility of female patients within modern medical practice. Dramatizing “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1892 story about the “rest cure,” alongside telling moments from American cinema, this sobering tape critiques the historical perception of the passive subject. Traveling to Japan, Edin Velez, in his painterly The Meaning of the Interval (1987, 19 mins), observes the contrasts between the modern and the traditional. Handsome split-screen images create a kaleidoscopic view of a seemingly paradoxical culture. One episode of an ambitious quartet, Juan Downey's Information Withheld (1983, 28:30 mins) is a lush essay about the nature of signs and symbols, from traffic signals and hieroglyphs to Michelangelo's painting Madonna and Child with St. Joseph. This is television for “the thinking eye.”