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          >videos 
        
  (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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