Watch this video in the link below, do your own research, visit his site and respond. What does this project make you think, feel, and understand about photography and the world we live in. I am looking for responses that show your research and analysis. Watching the video by itself is not enough to fuel your understand or support your claims. You must seek out additional information.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsVc5xrRVOE&feature=player_embedded
Comments due by 8pm on Monday 3/14
i dont think this is verry interesting there are loads of people that have experimented with cameras behind them and he didnt have a camera implanted on him it was just 3 small implants and i have personaly seen more intersting forms of implants at that, the idea is cool but i dont think it cutting edge at all. also i went to his websight and it is one of the worst working websights i have ever seen and from the work that i could see of his i have no idea what it was. i just dont understand why people are makeing a big deal about it. as in another vido was talking about its no different if he was wearing a baseball hat with a hiddend cam on it.
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This is a good concept, a good idea, but not good photography. The artist states that himself, "It is anti-photography, decoded, and will capture images that are denoted..." It has been a controversy for years in which photography did not take as a real art medium since "anybody can do it", and through this project, Bilal proves that idea, I mean, even the back of his head can do photography!
ReplyDeleteUpon first seeing the imagery that this 3di had produced, streamed straight to his website, the disorganized framing and unintentional blur made the images as a whole aesthetically displeasing and really only upon reading the artist's statement was I able to begin to notice and feel and become interested in the images that were being produced. It is interesting that he derives the concept from his past in which he compares the placement of the camera that since December of 2010 has recorded everything he's "left behind" to the people and places he wasn't able to remember during his journeys to Iraq-Saudi Arabia-Kuwait-U.S.. to the past.. to the memories. The past is behind us, a blur, moments that we choose only bits of to remember, and the placement of Bilal's 3di is literal to this idea of "past".
This "randomized and pure record of Bilal's own reality", this reality that is after every second only but a past, is really quite an impressive and true way of documenting the past.
When I first saw the video, I thought the concept was pretty interesting, and I wasn't aware that other people had experimented with the same idea. However, when I went to his website, I honestly didn't get anything out of his photographs.None of the images really captured moments that were significant, and it was mostly just blur, and walls. I don't think it was necessary for him to implant a camera mount into his head, and I think his results would have been similar if it were something that he could remove. But I do respect him as an artist, especially reading about some of his other projects, because he puts so much into each project and really involves himself in them, physically.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was a good idea and that he had a good concept of recording life that way, but i thought it was a bit extreme.
ReplyDeleteIt was dissapointing when i went to his website because his video was down.. the live streaming. But I am very interested in the outcome and what it looks like, i read Sooyoon's comment and i almost feel i am in for a dissapointment. Thats ok though because I feel like he is a very extreme person and he had this camera bolted to his head and now that I can see life i really dont think i am going to expect much.
According to his artist statement it works out I suppose if the images are in fact blurry. He has a good idea and he is succeeding in the fact this is what he wants to be proving. I'm just not sure its for me.
I think his third eye project bring up some frightening issues that come up a lot these days, and I am finding are becoming harder to ignore. Images are made of us all the time, so much of our lives are made public, and we live so much of our lives online on average with a false sense of security. We get caught in-between; should we become paranoid in attempt to retain our privacy, or should we let our lives become accessible to everyone, even if that means we are vulnerable to people we don't want seeing into our lives? I think most people chose to ignore the risks we take, myself included, because it's standard at this point, but how can we make sure we are safe in a world where identity theft and facebook exist?
ReplyDeleteI never think inflicting physical pain on yourself is worth anything. personally just because i have personal experiences with unfortunate events. I also don't think that he needed to go to those "extremes" by any means to get the same affect. Like many others have said, he could have just worn a camera on a hat or another piece of clothing. However, besides the fact that i feel it was unnecessary to be "implanted"; I do think that the project was interesting. He claimed that the project would bring up "important social, aesthetic, political, technological and artistic questions," which i think it did just that.
ReplyDeleteOuch, I respect the great lengths that he has gone to in order to make his art but do not know if the outcome is worth the hassle. I do agree that the concept behind the idea of the third eye is very interesting. The travels that he has encountered i suppose would make him think of what is "behind" him. Documenting what you left behind or what you don't see behind is odd but intriguing and I wish the website was up so I could see the live feed. He does discuss how it is anti-photography and I agree.
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