A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction. – Donna J. Haraway
Eye-Camera
An intraocular installation of an eye-cam. An experiment in wearable technology, cybernetics, and perception.
Prosthesis designed by Ocularist, William Danz. Photo by Jonathan James
I am attempting to recreate my eye with the help of a miniature camera implant in my prosthetic / artificial eye. read more…
A new series of articles about the affects of technology on our bodies, our consciousness, and ultimately our species as a whole. *** Warning this post contains a poll.
An how-to guide on staying sane, real, and human in a technological world present and future.
Benedict Campbell on Sexy Cyborgs of the Future
I am starting investigations read more…
Compare and Contrast: Friends and colleagues frequently send me info about bionic eyeballs …
NY Times
Burst of Technology Helps Blind to See
By PAM BELLUCK
via FAYE CHAO, photographer and new collaborator
AND…
WIRED
Microchip in the Eye Seeks to Restore Vision
By Priya Ganapati
An oldy, but goody.
On July 29th, a muggy hot day in Cambridge I presented my story and camera eye concept to the Camera Culture group at the M.I.T. Media Lab. Challenging questions! But the good ol’ fashioned tough love helped me refocus my goals and clarify what my projects will be using my new camera eye. They are on board and enthusiastic — but in order to partner I need foundation support and BIG fundraising. (hint hint please visit the donation page .)
More updates to come…
(As an anniversary present to myself I decided to share this essay with you all. I wrote this last year.)
#21. grow a new eye
Last night I read that they cleaned off the matted dried blood from my face and the grass sticking out of my hair. Apparently I was repeating myself, “What happened? What happened?’ It didn’t make sense, so I asked again and again like an old woman with Alzheimer’s, and as the rescue angels swooped me up in their helicopter, all faded to black.
*Disclaimer – this is my lame attempt at actually blogging – hence the delayed posting (you wouldn’t know it, but I’m very shy). I skipped about 30 people in line (see below) because I had a media pass. With privilege comes responsibility, so… as a good blogger, therefore I blog.
Digital Summer - an event presented last Wednesday by Ubergizmo (consumer electronics blog) and Girls in Tech, and produced by Digital Seasons was overpopulated with lines of up to 2o minutes long, chaotic with unprofessional handpicking by organizers of the special people in line < just think Madeleine Kahn, from History of the World Pt. 1>
You breathe, you cry. You grow and smile. You build, you love. And then what? We are organisms and are destined to retire.
Body, flesh, microchips, networks — do these things go together?
Yuuichi Shibuya from Japan designed me a new eye-patch. I look forward to trying it out!
Update – it is definitely a fabulous stylish eye-patch. I now have several from Yuuichi. I am planning on a specific photo that will incorporate his patches, unfortunately it’s taking longer than I thought, I want it to be right.
What is exciting me so much right now is that by combining cutting edge technology, robotics, bionics; with age old poetry we are moving closer to understanding our collective humanity.
She took the words right out of my mouth.
Aimee Mullins is an amputee (you would never know in the video below) her redefining photo with Nick Knight has been a great inspiration to me (Right). Please listen to her speech it is exceptional and moving; it is about redefining disability, and understanding the depth of humanity. While I may not share her height or speed I share her artistic vision. And I dream that one day soon I will have my own bionic vision.
The conversation with society has changed profoundly in this last decade. It is no longer a conversation about overcoming deficiency. It is a conversation about augmentation. It’s a conversation about potential. A prosthetic limb doesn’t represent a need to replace loss anymore. It can be as a symbol that the wearer has the power to create whatever it is they want to create in that space so people that society once considered to be disabled can now become the architects of their own identities, indeed to continue to change those identities by designing their bodies from a place empowerment. What is exciting me so much right now, is that by combining cutting edge technology, robotics, bionics; with the age old poetry we are moving closer to understanding our collective humanity. I think if we wanted to discover the full potential in our humanity we need to celebrate those heart breaking strengths and those glorious disabilities that we all have. … I think of Shakespeare’s Shylock. ‘If you prick us do we not bleed, and if you tickle us do we not laugh.’ It is our humanity and all the potential within it makes us beautiful.
~Aimee Mullins from her speech “How my legs give me super-powers” at the Ted Conference 2009
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EYE CAM from Max Magazine in Italia. … Will anyone translate?
MORE BIONIC EYES IN THE NEWS:
Bionic eye gives blind man sight from the BBC
Filmmaker plans “Eyeborg” eye socket camera from Reuters
