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(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 viewers� 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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