Artist Tony Oursler works in several media, but he is best known for his fractured-narrative handmade groundbreaking videos of eerily painted dummies. His art deals with topics from Multiple Personality Disorder to corporate power and media http://www.tonyoursler.com
His work has been exhibited in a variety of different environments such as museums etc, he has many methods of moving and removing video monitor using mirrors, reflection of water, glass and other devices.Since the mid-1970s Oursler has been a pioneer in New Media Art
Tony Ourslers work 'Eye in the sky' is a fibreglass sphere which projects a single eye watching television. Oursler has not made the rest of the body visible but has the sounds of somebody channel surfing, through commercials sitcoms game shows etc. even though the facial expressions are not shown you get a sense of them when he the eye twitches, moves etc.
The fragmentary nature of the piece - The disembodied eye, the reflected television screen and the rapidly changing channels -- parallels features of mental illnesses that signal the disintegration of the personality and the inability of the individual to identify with and function in the real world.
Tony Ourslers work relates to the Enlightenment in many ways such as freedom, individualism, progress and science. The way his work comes across to me is that the progression of science and modern technology has in a way stopped us as thinking as an individual. In all truth and honesty you see things happening on the television and it influences the way you see things it could even change you perspective on the matter. We do have our freedom of thinking and saying what we want, but we can all relate to this that we are all influenced one way our another by he media wether it be television, radio or newspapers. The world has progressed in a big way and generations have all been affected by this.
