Projection and Tony Oursler

This is a photo off Carol's blog that is of her exercise ball covered in papier mache. We decided that for tuesdays session that we would have a cast of the ball to se see how our video would look projected onto it. This ball shape would represent the shape of an eyeball which would fit with the theme of our video 'Mind's Eye'. We need work out whether the video will look right projected onto this shape and whether we can suspend the shape from the ceiling with some kind of fishing wire, which would then hopefully give the illusion that it is floating.

Tony Oursler - Eye In The Sky

This is a fiberglass sphere, projected onto it is a single eye watching television. The fact that we only see the eye emphasises on how much important the eye is and how much information is taken in by the eye. The image and information capturing is represented by the flickering and twitching on the eye, this gives a very abstract view into our minds. "...encourages multiple interpretations, examines aspects of abstraction, self-portraiture and identity, social consciousness, popular culture and the city as a state of mind."
I would like to think that we could project our video in a similar way so that it would make people think about how you can never know what is going on in someones mind and what they actually see, as everyone sees things differently. Knowing what someone is seeing doesn't mean that you know what is going on inside their mind, someone can have many thoughts and images going around in their mind at any one time.