This video installation was installed in an elevator at 20 Jay Street in Brooklyn, New York during the 2007 Dumbo Art Under the Bridge Festival. The piece consisted of a portable DVD player inside a metal box attached to the inside of the elevator just above the buttons. The DVD player showed a short video of a lizard's eye slowly opening and closing, its pupil dilating and contracting as it appeared to watch the elevator's passengers. The disembodied eye referenced not only surveillance in a traditional sense, but also a kind of "scientific gaze" and the notion of watching as a means to create factual knowledge about the world around us.
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This video installation was installed in an elevator at 20 Jay Street in Brooklyn, New York during the 2007 Dumbo Art Under the Bridge Festival. The piece consisted of a portable DVD player inside a metal box attached to the inside of the elevator just above the buttons. The DVD player showed a short video of a lizard's eye slowly opening and closing, its pupil dilating and contracting as it appeared to watch the elevator's passengers. The disembodied eye referenced not only surveillance in a traditional sense, but also a kind of "scientific gaze" and the notion of watching as a means to create factual knowledge about the world around us.
Work metadata
- Year Created: 2007
- Submitted to ArtBase: Friday Feb 20th, 2009
- Original Url: http://katyhiggins.com/lizardeye_top.html
- Permalink: http://katyhiggins.com/lizardeye_top.html
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Work Credits:
- Katy Higgins, creator
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