{"id":14838,"date":"2025-07-25T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T11:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/video\/an-eye-is-an-eye-is-an-eye-is-an-eye\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T10:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T09:18:07","slug":"an-eye-is-an-eye-is-an-eye-is-an-eye","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/video\/an-eye-is-an-eye-is-an-eye-is-an-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"An eye is an eye is an eye is an eye"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>An eye is an eye is an eye is an eye<\/em>&nbsp;est un film qui explore la transformation du regard \u00e0 l&rsquo;\u00e8re de la \u00ab&nbsp;computer vision&nbsp;\u00bb. Il questionne ce qu\u2019il advient de notre perception visuelle lorsque celle-ci est automatis\u00e9e et r\u00e9duite \u00e0 des op\u00e9rations statistiques. Face \u00e0 la prolif\u00e9ration de cam\u00e9ras impl\u00e9ment\u00e9es de syst\u00e8mes de reconnaissance automatis\u00e9s, l\u2019oeuvre r\u00e9v\u00e8le comment les machines interpr\u00e8tent et simplifient un champ visuel immense, hors de port\u00e9e pour l\u2019\u0153il humain. Les images du film, issues de cam\u00e9ras de surveillance, sont d\u00e9ploy\u00e9es au sein d&rsquo;une fiction d&rsquo;anticipation qui questionne la cr\u00e9ation de sens \u00e0 partir du visible et la simplification de la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 pour devenir \u00ab\u00a0lisible\u00a0\u00bb par les machines. En exposant ce nouveau monde visuel, l&rsquo;\u0153uvre interroge la culture visuelle moderne, domin\u00e9e par des interactions entre machines, o\u00f9 l&rsquo;humain devient secondaire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>An eye is an eye is an eye is an eye is a film that explores the transformation of the eye in the age of computer vision. It questions what happens to our visual perception when it is automated and reduced to statistical operations. Faced with the proliferation of cameras equipped with automated recognition systems, the work reveals how machines interpret and simplify an immense visual field, beyond the reach of the human eye. The film\u2019s images, taken from surveillance cameras, are analyzed and deployed within a fiction of anticipation that questions the creation of meaning from the visible and the simplification of reality to become \u201creadable\u201d by machines. By exposing this new visual world, the work questions modern visual culture, dominated by interactions between machines, where the human becomes secondary.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"An eye is an eye is an eye is an eye (movie)\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1096864825?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AnEye_MOVIE_still3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"15833\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AnEye_MOVIE_still3-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AnEye_MOVIE_still3-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AnEye_MOVIE_still3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AnEye_MOVIE_still3-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AnEye_MOVIE_still3-480x270.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AnEye_MOVIE_still3.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AnEye_MOVIE_still1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"15835\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AnEye_MOVIE_still1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AnEye_MOVIE_still1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AnEye_MOVIE_still1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AnEye_MOVIE_still1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AnEye_MOVIE_still1-480x270.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AnEye_MOVIE_still1.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:79px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfreeway-production-storage-01-connector.filmfreeway.com\/press_kits\/headshots\/002\/959\/720\/original\/abd706c378-headshot.jpg?1735660155\" alt=\"\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1;object-fit:cover;width:200px\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Damien Petitot<\/strong> est n\u00e9 \u00e0 Cambrai en France en 1982, il vit et travaille \u00e0 Bruxelles. Il s&rsquo;est form\u00e9 \u00e0 l&rsquo;\u00e9cole ART\u00b2 (Mons,Belgique) , au sein de l&rsquo;atelier IDM\u00a9 dirig\u00e9 par Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Octave. Depuis, il travaille en tant qu\u2019artiste plasticien et articule sa d\u00e9marche artistique autour d&rsquo;enjeux li\u00e9s aux \u00e9crans et \u00e0 leur contenu, notamment en s&#8217;emparant du m\u00e9dium vid\u00e9o et des appareils de diffusion ou de projection. Il aime d\u00e9tourner et hacker des dispositifs techniques (cam\u00e9ras, smartphone, ordinateur, moniteurs\u2026) et s&rsquo;amuse \u00e0 y int\u00e9grer ses propres donn\u00e9es (archives de messageries, photographies, vid\u00e9os&#8230;). Il cr\u00e9e ainsi des installations o\u00f9 la technologie recycle l&rsquo;intime, des performances o\u00f9 l&rsquo;erreur et l&rsquo;al\u00e9atoire sont \u00e0 consid\u00e9rer comme des g\u00e9n\u00e9rateurs de fictions et d&rsquo;exp\u00e9riences visuelles. En regard de cette d\u00e9marche personnelle, il collabore aussi diff\u00e9rents artistes tels que Claire Williams (Manifestations) , Lucille Calmel (What is this life if, full of care,.html\u2027mov, Soft Screens Soft Skins Soft) , Ga\u00ebtan Rusquet (in Depth, As we were moving ahead&#8230;) , Daniel Linehan (Third space) ou encore St\u00e9phane Kozik (Livescape). Il a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9sident au th\u00e9\u00e2tre de L\u2019l de 2014 \u00e0 2018 en compagnie de Mathias Varenne, et depuis 2022 il est artiste-habitant aux Ateliers Mommen, une cit\u00e9 d\u2019artistes de Bruxelles.<br>Damien Petitot a expos\u00e9 ou perform\u00e9 dans de nombreux lieux et festivals : Kunstenfestivaldesarts, BOZAR\/Nuits Sonores, MIM\/BrusselsElectronicMarathon, CC Jacques Franck, Brass, Propulse, Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de la Balsamine, Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Les Tanneurs, Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de l\u2019L, XS \/Th\u00e9\u00e2tre National, Pink Screens\/Cin\u00e9ma Nova, Botanique, Fuse, Magasin 4, Recyclart \u00e0 Bruxelles, Maison Folie\/Mons2015\/Labor\u00e9ales, Festival VIA, City Sonics \u00e0 Mons, Rockerill et Palais des Beaux-Arts \u00e0 Charleroi, Dour Festival, Budakunstcentrum \u00e0 Courtrai, Les Transardentes et Festival Emulation \u00e0 Li\u00e8ge, Festival TAKT \u00e0 Neerpelt (Belgique), Villa Gillet \u00e0 Lyon, P\u00e9pini\u00e8res Europ\u00e9ennes, Festival OODAAQ \u00e0 Rennes, Nantes et Saint-Malo, Nordik Impakt \u00e0 Caen, L&rsquo;Hybride \u00e0 Lille, Festival Jerk-Off, Divan du monde et CDCN Ateliers de Paris, Boom\u2019Structur \u00e0 Clermont-Ferrand, Night Shot \u00e0 Carcassonne (France), P\u00e9pini\u00e8res Europ\u00e9ennes \u00e0 Pannonhalma (Hongrie), Hall Of Fame \u00e0 Tilburg (Pays-Bas), Centre Puertas de Castilla \u00e0 Murcia (Espagne), Festival ImpulsTanz \u00e0 Vienne (Autriche), Usine C (Canada), Matucana 100 \u00e0 Santiago de Chile (Chili)&#8230;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Damien Petitot<\/strong> was born in Cambrai, France in 1982, and lives and works in Brussels. He trained at the ART\u00b2 school in Mons, Belgium, at the IDM\u00a9 workshop run by Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Octave. Since then, he has been working as a visual artist, focusing his artistic approach on issues relating to screens and their content, in particular by seizing the medium of video and broadcasting or projection equipment. He likes to hijack and hack technical devices (cameras, smartphones, computers, monitors, etc.) and plays around with his own data (email archives, photographs, videos, etc.). He creates installations where technology recycles the intimate, performances where error and randomness are seen as generators of fictions and visual experiences. Since then, he has been working as a visual artist, focusing his artistic approach on issues relating to screens and their content, in particular through the medium of video. Alongside this personal approach, he also collaborates with artists such as Claire Williams (Manifestations) , Lucille Calmel (What is this life if, full of care,.html\u2027mov, Soft Screens Soft Skins Soft) , Ga\u00ebtan Rusquet (in Depth, As we were moving ahead&#8230;) , Daniel Linehan (Third space) and St\u00e9phane Kozik (Livescape). He was resident at the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de L&rsquo;l from 2014 to 2018 with Mathias Varenne, and since 2022 he has been a resident artist at Ateliers Mommen, an artists&rsquo; housing estate in Brussels.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.damienpetitot.com\/post\/an-eye-is-an-eye-is-an-eye-is-an-eye\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14879,"menu_order":0,"template":"","portfolio-category":[529],"portfolio-tag":[],"class_list":["post-14838","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio-category-expo-friche-17-oct-2025-11-jan-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/14838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio-category?post=14838"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.instantsvideo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio-tag?post=14838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}