Nathan Gray

Nathan puts on an eye-phone; that is, an iPhone held at eye-level to substitute for a *real* eye—a surrogate intervention into the interface-apparatus-cum-eyeball. Part of his Works <30s series, no.9 supposes objects as scores for action and employs an economy of lightness and touch to deflect attention from the work in the artwork itself. The iPhone, like other works from this series, is picked up and improvised within less than thirty seconds. Whether he meant it or not, the eye read through the camera lens through the screen-interface is a candid representation of the computational lens. Intuiting the increasing production of technologies within shifting social relations of the ‘human’, how might no.9 speak to machine-seeing and the reproduction of tasks deemed automatable through mechanised serviceability?