Harun Farocki / Eye Machine III

The oeuvre of the German film maker Harun Farocki (who is presently a visiting professor at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna) now comprises almost 100 feature films, essay films, documentaries, and installations. Farocki explores global, economic, social, and cultural developments in his works. Our Salzburg exhibition will present Farocki’s trilogy Eye/Machine I–III, produced between 2000 and 2003, as well as last year’s installation On Construction of Griffith’s Films.

In the video installations Eye/Machine I, II, III (2000–2003), Farocki deals with the possibilities of intelligent image processing. He focusses on identity-finding and monitoring procedures that were originally developed for military purposes and now contribute to the fact that machines can operate in civil areas without the assistance of humans. To illustrate this connection between the disappearance of manual labour and the abolition of eye labour, Farocki uses recordings from research institutions, film archives, and advertisement departments; he interrelates and compares them in many different ways.

Harun Farocki - Eye_Machine III par zohilof