Julian Reil (AT)
THU September 4 – MON September 8 2014, 9:30 AM – 7:30 PM
Ulla Popken, Spittelwiese 4
You feel like you’re being watched, don’t you? The artificial eye appears to be nothing out of the ordinary at first glance. It rests ensconced in a little black box. But upon closer inspection, you discover why you suddenly have the feeling of being under surveillance. Like a living creature with a mind of its own, Frank the Eye peers back at you—the actual observer, now also the one being observed—and follows your every move. Is this reciprocated gaze what it takes to get us to acknowledge an object as a life form? Is it even somehow human? And what actually happens with the picture files capturing visitors’ facial features that the eye’s face-tracking software uses to recognize people and stalk them?