An experimental video addressing issues of surveillance and technology that allow us to see where we normally can not. Through a 1-800 (toll free) phone number publicized nationally, recorded messages of fears and fantasies about video surveillance were collected from callers: If you were caught on videotape, what would be the worst thing you could be caught doing? If you could watch someone, what would you want to see? The video highlights several narratives to raise issues of surveillance: the construction of our society’s desire to watch surveillance materials and its insatiable voyeurism, as well as what it would mean to have an alter-electronic ego or to be biologically tagged without the recourse to ‘pass’ for survival’s sake.
		A-027 OCULARIS : EYE SURROGATES Kim-Trang T. Tran Essay, USA, 1997, 21 min, b & w and colour