"I'm an Eye, A Mechanical Eye’ takes its title from the avant-garde filmmaker Dziga Vertov’s writings. For the director of "Man with the Movie Camera" (1929), the camera is an extension of the human eye yet at times excels it. One who holds the camera then becomes a cyborg, reminiscent of our contemporary relationship with the mobile phone cameras. Whatever the eye of the cameraman chooses to see, the machine documents. The selection and montage that the camera al… more
Zeynep Kayan’s artistic practice focuses on exploring the variations of a repetitious structural setup through photography, video and sound pieces in relation to portraiture and performance. In her previous work, she reveals the change and the desire for movement embedded in the production process as she disturbs the surfaces of images. Her works that are produced for "Temporary Sameness" carries the movement from the surface of the image to the "within" by trying t… more
