The Ecological Vision of Xu Bing’s Dragonfly Eyes

Pao-Chen Tang

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Abstract

Increasingly since the 1960s, the compound eye, a visual organ typically found in arthropods, has served as a fitting metaphor of camera as a receptive device in the system of surveillance apparatus. This is not just because the setup of a conventional closed-circuit television (CCTV) control room readily evokes associations with the organ, insofar as instantaneous images recorded by numerous single-lens cameras can be simultaneously exhibited on one sizable screen. Since the early 2010s, the mechanism of the surveillance camera has literally taken up the form of the compound eye. In 2013, for instance, scientists at the University of Illinois...
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)440-452
Number of pages13
JournalISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
Volume27
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 3 Sept 2020

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