Pan-Tilt-Zoom
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Minds without a body; phantom flesh; vision
without a gaze. We have opted for our biological body to mutate into
a telematic and a Cartesian body. We remotely transit cyberspace
territories, we use more than one body, more than one gaze. Our
biological body is more like a zombie, because it is there, but in
an absent way. We are still here, but our eyes wander in other
universes. We have "(...) a sliding and shifting consciousness that
is neither <<completely here>>, in this body, nor
<<completely there>>, in those bodies." We rely on
technology to expand our body; we desire to let the flesh die; a
camera sees better than our eyes.
The exhibition arises as an idea of permanent visibility, using an
artifact of political technology, which is transformed into a device
of voyeurism, and telepresence for those eyes that need artificial
vision. The eye-camera is subjected to a device, which many times is
not being observed by any person: it is being transmitted to a
machine and not to an observer. By whom are we being watched?
The works presented in Pan-Tilt-Zoom have been conceived on small
screens to recall the unfolding of the point of view, and to resort
to other ocular perceptions. These are works subjected to a field of
vision given by the electronic image.