July 8, 2011 § Leave a comment
Since 1980, Mann has worn an evolving prototype. It involves a computer screen attached to a pair of sunglasses with video, audio and data links to the Internet. It is a device that causes the eye itself to function as both camera and display. A computer-controlled laser light source is directed into the eye and is made to be responsive to rays of light that have otherwise entered the eye. The continuous data stream that results was, for a two-year period between 1994 and 1996, continuously available for visitors on the HTML and is just one part of a complex project that underpins Manns alignment of prosthetic computing with socio-political critique.