The eyeborg.

• Author: Mangu-Ward, Katherine
• Position: Artifact - Usage of surveillance cameras - Brief article

MEET ROB SPENCE. A childhood accident left him with only one working eye. He's a filmmaker and an unemployed engineer. So what could be more natural than concealing a miniature camera behind a prosthetic eyeball?

Spence and his partner Kosta Grammatis, a former SpaceX avionics systems engineer, see their eye-camera experiment--dubbed the Eyeborg Project--as a scientific and artistic venture with powerful political implications. As Spence told Wired, "Sometimes I run a little experiment. I tell people around me, 'Did you know there are 11,000 new video cameras being installed in our country every day?' Then I will exaggerate and say there are 50,000 new video cameras going in every day. Most of the times I get the same answer: 'That's interesting. Now what's for lunch ?' or 'The weather is nice today.'"

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