[Nettime-bold] Steve Mann documentary

["geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl>]

(This Canadian documentary ran on the Australian SBS channel last week. It's
really good. For those interested in wearcomp guru Steve Mann... /geert)

http://cbc.ca/cyberman/
http://cbc.ca/cyberman/AllNEW.htm

Steve Mann is a Toronto-based inventor, university teacher and cyborg. His
wearable computer technology has made him "all human with machine-extended
parts."

THE NATURE OF THINGS with David Suzuki presents Cyberman, a look at Canada's
original cyborg.

"In cyberspace there are no borders. What I do is allow people to get inside
my head and put themselves in my shoes and see the world from my
perspective," said Mann. Through his "Eye-Tap" sunglasses, wearable
computers and recording devices, viewers literally see the world through his
eyes.

This cyber-genre film takes documentary filmmaking to a new level.  The
filmmakers were forced to come to terms with the fact that the subject they
were filming was in fact filming them!  This multi-media film was shot on
various formats, including Super 16, Mini DV and black and white
photography, and includes footage from Steve Mann's patented "Eye-Tap" video
and "dusting" photography.

Producer Michael Allder commented, "Cyberman is set not in some distant,
unrealized world, but in the present. Steve lives in a universe where
information is mainlined into memory, where he daily records his encounters
with the outer world, his students, even his wife.  He believes he is the
face of the future, but it is a future that many will find unsettling."

Since its premiere at the Rotterdam International Film Festival 2001, the
film version of

Cyberman has been invited to screen at festivals around the world.  Mann has
also recently published his second book entitled, Cyborg, a Random House
publication.

Cyberman reunites the creative team of the award-winning National Film Board
cult-hit feature, Project Grizzly, directed by Peter Lynch, written by James
Heer and produced by Michael Allder, who is also executive producer of THE
NATURE OF THINGS.



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