One of the things my print partner Sue had talked about as an influence on her work was 'the panoptic eye'…..I've been thinking more about what that is, and as well as lots of things about the wider issues of monitoring and surveillance, I found this in an extract from Scientific American:
"A bug's eye can see in almost every direction at once. Such broad vision holds tremendous appeal for the makers and users of artificial lenses….now researchers at the University of California have fabricated an artificial eye that mimics an insect's compound eye..
In a few years, such all-seeing lenses could be found in camera phones, at the end of medical devices, in omnidirectional surveillance systems or as tiny, hidden cameras,. Panoptic living may finally be glimpsed through a fly's eye."
This is a photograph of a bug I watched in Spain (the same sort I think that the mechanical ones in the film Pan's Labyrinth were based on)…I photographed him on some wired glass. What would his version of me look like? Pam
