Tony Oursler's "Criminal Eye" at Hamburger Bahnhoff, Berlin 07 from MAjournal07AP on Vimeo.

Tony Oursler, Criminal Eye, 1995
1-channel video installation, colour, sound, sphere [diameter 45.5cm]

Oursler's work projects faces or isolated eyes onto anthropomorphically shaped objects, thus seeming to bring these objects to life. Exploring ideas of surveillance and superimposition, sources of angst in a media-dominated world.

The Criminal eye severed from body and mind, has lost the function of perception as a source of cognitive awareness and become a mere instrument of vision; it sees but does not comprehend.