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2013 Update on Eye-Camera Project

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We are super excited to announce the status of the eye-camera project. The lead engineer Kosta Grammatis, and his team are coming up with a tentative timeline within the next few months to hopefully finish the prototype. Currently the new hollowed out eye prosthesis designed by Ocularist William Danz is being professionally scanned in Canada, by Javelin-Tech, who is the EyeTanya team’s newest partner. After the scan, the team will prototype virtually through 3D software, buying parts, fitting the prosthesis, and trouble shooting video capabilities.

Kosta Grammatis, Lead Engineer and William Danz, Ocullarist

Dear Kickstarter donors and fans, it has taken much longer to push my project forward than anticipated due to constraints on my end as well as the limitations of workable space in the prosthetic eye. THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING PATIENT and I am very aware of everyone’s eagerness and of finishing the prototype. The team on board was responsible for making Rob Spence’s eye AKA the “Eyeborg” a term that we simultaneously came up with to describe the phenomenon in augmenting a prosthetic eye with a digital recording device.
I would like to emphasize that this project is extremely challenging to design because of space limitations – William Danz did an excellent job in designing a larger hallowed out model of my prosthesis. It is clear and pretty creepy to look at!

All in all, we are much closer to the light at the end of the tunnel.
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Portrait of an artist as a young girl.

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LOST POST from early January

SF MOMA retrospective of Francesca Woodman [back in January], who as a young photographer, was extremely prolific, and introspective. At first for an artist such as myself is an exhilarating insight into process, exposition of guts, and desperation. Then walking through Room after room dedicated to her image it quickly becomes suffocating.. It is horrifying and perfect – she is immortalized in her youth. She successfully dodged the humiliation of growing older with wrinkles and feelings of decay encroaching. I’m wildly jealous, but carry a sense of superiority with my choice, endurance, and pure luck of survival.

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On her way.

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A short video: A premise, a dream of a disembodied look at loss – from footage of eyes and the road which were the last moments before a car wreck that left me with one eye and a new perspective. … Continue reading →

EyeTanya Manifesto (work-in-progress )

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EyeTanya

… a study of a multi-disciplinary artistic and scientific approach for human transformation. <EyeTanya> believes in capturing moments in time expressing the vitality of life. <EyeTanya> through 1st person and varying perspectives explores parodying and defying stigmas of (dis)ability in an effort to reclaim one’s ability. And finally through self-actualizing performances with time-capturing devices <EyeTanya> calls upon neo self-mythology to create a future identity.