We've been looking at the "Panoptic view" but here's a selection of installations from The Kaleidoscopic Eye exhibition currently in Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum. The pic above is a piece of work Y by Carsten Höller. and the image below is of an installation by Los Carpinteros called Frozen Study of a Disaster.

By odd coincidence, Dr Alan Marcus told us to look for "God" in our work. The next day this image blasted its way onto my screen. Now where's the other eye...? Check out some pix below, feel free to click on them for more info and bigger versions.

This week in the Digital Culture course we've been looking at surveillance and CCTV with particular reference to the film Red Road. The effectiveness of our surveillance culture has been brought into question along with the ethics of it. But here the images are slightly more light~hearted - taking a satirical swipe at the objects so coveted by consumers. The retail items are so desirable that even the cameras cannot help but look on; disavowing themselves of their actual function. Is there someone behind the lens? In a control room? Or have these weapons of mass consumerism transcended into the digital realm? Do robot cameras dream of Gucci bags? Click on the pictures, detailing shop windows from various Louis Vuitton stores from around the world, below for bigger versions. To see Part 1, click HERE.

This week in the Digital Culture course we've been looking at surveillance and CCTV with particular reference to the film Red Road. The effectiveness of our surveillance culture has been brought into question along with the ethics of it. But here the images are slightly more light~hearted - taking a satirical swipe at the objects so coveted by consumers. The retail items are so desirable that even the cameras cannot help but look on; disavowing themselves of their actual function. Is there someone behind the lens? In a control room? Or have these weapons of mass consumerism transcended into the digital realm? Do robot cameras dream of Gucci bags? Click on the pictures, detailing shop windows from various Louis Vuitton stores from around the world, below for bigger versions.

This site is all about the "Panoptic" and "surveillance society" and runs in tandem with my Digital Culture course at the University of Aberdeen. This website will address some of the issues involved whilst also demonstrating some practical examples through video footage, images and various other sites. Vintage Paint acts as a companion piece to a thirty minute film I made with my other colleagues on the course, some of which will be available here. Throughout these pages you can find links embeded in each post whlist you can find an easy to navigate menu on the right covering the different aspects of this site.