BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A Canadian filmmaker plans to have a mini camera installed in his prosthetic eye to make documentaries and raise awareness about surveillance in society...About:
Take a one eyed filmmaker, an unemployed engineer, and a vision for something that's never been done before and you have yourself the EyeBorg Project. Rob Spence and Kosta Grammatis are trying to make history by embedding a video camera and a transmitter in a prosthetic eye. That eye is going in Rob's eye socket, and will record the world from a perspective that's never been seen before. Via The Eyeborg Project
Earlier in the school year a lot of discussion focused on forms of surveillance and measures visual artists, designers, and architects have gone through to subvert practices of discipline technology. We have a long fascinating history of observing personal and public rituals from controlled spaces. I'm interested to see how Rob handles this technological breakthrough. As an artist it's a pretty solid gimmick that's already earning him an audience. Whether or not he can fashion an important statement on surveillance has yet to be discovered.
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