A speculative intelligence inhabits the network: part animal, part camera, part algorithm.
Eye of the Giant Squid approaches surveillance through a deep-sea creature whose immense eyes once belonged as much to myth as to science. The project grew from 2020 a CCTV Odyssey, a lockdown research process that treated accessible and compromised CCTV and IP camera feeds as portals into a distributed machine-eye.
Two sets of footage became material for machine-learning models: images interrupted by animals and plants, and images shaped by glitches, distortion and signal failure. The resulting videos do not document the world; they hallucinate it. Streets, bodies and organisms dissolve into synthetic chimeras.
Two screens act as eyes, joined by industrial cables like optic nerves. This tangled body proposes an alien form of looking that mutates and refuses stable recognition, asking what perception might become beyond the clear, identifying gaze of surveillance.
