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(Canadian tv reviews our project, October 2001!)
The
blind eye project videos are designed to deflect the gaze away from
the screen. We've produced two videos this way:
preview
exoptic
fields "The most
advanced consumer product ever designed to deliberately un-consume."
More below. more
blind
heat
salon.com
writup
"film scouts"
review
Video that deflects eyes from screens to bodies, producing hotter sex.
The video deflects viewersŪ attention while it illuminates and intensifies
physical passions: Be your own movie! (Contains no nudity or sexual
acts.) Images and sound by Benton-C, one of New York's premiere live-cinema
artists.
exoptic
fields by age series
In development: videos designed to deflect rather than attract toddlers
and children, 7-12 year olds, another for 12-18 year olds.
(Of course, for children and toddlers, no television is still
better than even deflective tv.)
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By reversing
media's logic of attraction -- media's essential function -- these
videos create a point of critical distance. This vantage is completely
outside the flux and flow of the global media-sphere and transcends
false dichotomies of "good-for-you," "educational" media and "bad,"
"sensational" media.
When presented
as a gift, the videos become an exchange of ideas; the seeds of
a new way to look at media itself. Passing a tape to someone else
is the Highest Art of the blind eye projects and helps crack the
ruling media logic.
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