"I say that we live in a civilization of the optical. It is optics which is at stake: the structure of the visual, the audio-visual and the audio-sens - let's just say the audio-sensitivie. So, what I am saying, and this is the critique I have made in The Vision Machine: giving vision to a mchine is the never-before-seen. When the door sees me and when it interprets my passing-by, it's the never-before-see. Klee said: 'Now objects look at me.' In the same way, by means of television, tele-surveillance, spy satellites, and the world's systems of overexposure, but not only with these, we are in the process of giving vision, hence optics, to the machine. And this is an event without equal." pp. 69-70
Lotringer, Sylvère, and Paul Virilio. The Accident of Art (Semiotext(E) / Foreign Agents). Semiotext(e), 2005.
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Here, Virillio discusses the difference of perception between analogue and digital artistic eras. The fact that the we are examined by the machines the way we examined the world is an interesting, and often overlooked point. This quote also contributes to what I want to create with video works relating to global consciousness.
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