The All Seeing Eye I and II by Radim Labuda - The installation videos are minimal formal re-working of the original military footage downloaded from the Internet. Video showing a landscape in night vision with a crosshair brings to mind many possible previous experiences: video games, images of Afghanistan and Iraq produced by specialised devices to “search and destroy”.

The movement of the camera across the terrain is remapped to a static landscape - as if the viewfinder was revealing only small sections of the landscape at a time. Camera movement is remapped relative to the static objects in the footage. The image is stabilised by motion-tracking technology which allows for compensation for much of the movements of the aircraft. The movement of the rectangular viewfinder is negative to the movement of the camera. The real and the virtual space juxtapose and the sniper on board of the aircraft can use the virtual reconstruction to “act upon the situations” both in the virtual space as in the real world. Then it’s all just a matter of pushing a button. Out of an indifferent space of a virtual reconstruction, just like from the real space the functionary - operator / the sniper picks those parts that are assigned to him by his programme, which is searching and destroying targets. Vilém Flusser speaks of the apparatus, the operator and the program as one complex entity. It does not matter if it’s a photographer with a camera or a sniper his equipment. They both just push buttons.

Installation of this material in the gallery space is conceived with emphasis on visceral interaction with the viewers, who find themselves physically confronted with the video. The original footage is downloaded from the Internet. The images are taken from AC-130 Spectre US gunship in Afghanistan (ASE II.) and from probably a helicopter in Iraq (ASE I.).