Canadian film-maker and monoculist Rob Spence is blogging about his experience installing a webcam into his eye socket. His goal is to become the world’s first “cyborg documentary filmmaker,” and is working with cybernetics expert Steve Mann to build a prototype. The whole kit and caboodle should be done in four to six months, and production, aka, recording everything in his life including bathroom breaks, jack off sessions, regular fucking, and probably a lot of threesomes (he’s a cyborg) from an actual first-person POV is set to start as soon as the eye-mod is ready.

At age 11 Spence lost an eye when he accidentally shot himself with a gun in Ireland. My Canadian flatmate (who interned for Spence a couple years ago) tells me that this largely an exercise in Orwellian irony – a  proverbial table-turning on western surveillance culture. But my Canadian flatmate says a lot of things. And I prefer to think that this is a dude becoming a robot because being a robot is better than not being a robot. 

Recently San Francisco artist Tanya Vlach made everyone at Gizmodo lose their shit when she posted a ‘call for engineers’, asking for consultation on replacing an artificial eye with a webcam. I don’t know about all this. But does anyone remember the guy who strapped a camera to his cat?

ARIANNA REICHE