Rob Spence

Documentary Filmmaker, The Eyeborg Project

ROB SPENCE is a director and producer. As a teenager he lost an eye in a shooting accident and his prosthetic eye is now a video camera. His work has appeared on Discovery, Vision, Space TV and the CBC, for whom he made the controversial documentary Let’s All Hate Toronto. Currently he is producing a documentary about how video and humanity intersect, especially with regards to surveillance.

More on Rob Spence

  • H+ Magazine: Eyeborgian Filmmaker [Sept.09]
  • Time Magazine: Eyeborg among '50 Best Inventions of 09'
  • YouTube: Rob Spence on The Today Show [2009]

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    About the session

    An Eye for an Eye [2009]

    He lost an eye and replaced it with a video camera. Now he’s questioning how private surveillance may change journalism.

    SPEAKER: Rob Spence (CA) Documentary Filmmaker, The Eyeborg Project

    The emergence of mobile technology has led to ethical questions about private surveillance and documentation. Now the one-eyed docu- mentary filmmaker, Rob Spence, is adding another dimension to the term ‘personal media’. Introducing the Eyeborg Project: An embedded video camera in the prosthetic eye of Spence that will widen the per- spectives of human-technology interaction. Meet the cyborg filmmaker and decide for yourself what impact this cybernetic journey will have on our surveillance society.

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