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After a long 3-day weekend of planning collaborations with a swollen

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cosmological eye, I am thinking about the body, how to embody the eye, & time, & enact scenarios of mind. 3 scenarios imagining the eye-as-portal/point between the inside & outside worlds:

A modeled eye: a simple cubic room of clear glass walls, slightly bigger than the body, like a model eye that a body is encapsulated within. Each wall of the room is a reverberant surface, either an input or output of an integrated cross feedback system oriented by the poles of the room - up/down, left/right, front/back. The body serves as interference to the feedback flow & sound is modulated by both subtle & exaggerated movements.

A moving eye: a straightforward scenario for visual interaction consisting of a "dancer" with a live-feed camera held in hands & another live-feed camera mounted to the head at eye level. Both feeds are superimposed on to each other to create a single complex image.

A multi-eye self: multiple camera mounted upon "observers" - people moving through the space oriented around a central "subject" with no camera standing in the middle. Each camera feed is superimposed on the other to create a complex composite of a single subject from multiple angles.

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