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Eye Robot (Opto-Isolator)

Opto-isolator (2007: Golan Levin with Greg Baltus) inverts the condition of spectatorship by exploring the questions: "What if artworks could know how we were looking at them? And, given this knowl...  
 
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kalcaron (1 month ago) Show Hide
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It's cute.
jazzisievers (3 months ago) Show Hide
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..now thats just scary
rapazn (1 year ago) Show Hide
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put this on ur front door and kids will never messing with your house again.
Zerosmelt (7 months ago) Show Hide
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or even better install it right above the toilet, lol
moffe247 (3 months ago) Show Hide
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That would have been SO AWSOME!
tilai11 (1 year ago) Show Hide
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It reminds me :

Bill Spinhoven : "I/Eye",1993.

but 2007 version

Well done
bricology (1 year ago) Show Hide
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"It reminds me : Bill Spinhoven : 'I/Eye',1993."

That's exactly what I was thinking. It's also derivative of Ed Ihnatowicz' "Senster" (1970).

Hasn't this whole "inversion of the viewer/viewed" thing been pretty thoroughly explored already over the past 40 years? This particular incarnation seems gracelessly heavy-handed and literal to me.

As Santayana might've said: "Those who cannot learn from art history are doomed to repeat it".
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brilliant!
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I want one. It can answer the door for me, that would keep the salesmen away.
paolotonon (1 year ago) Show Hide
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I was thinking this installation was under the Golan's quality standard. But after having seen this clip I chanced my opinion: awesome engaging: bravo!

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