Stephen Soreff

Library Material – Video
Stephen Soreff – The Flying Eye, 00:08:58

Library Material – Video
Stephen Soreff – Tombs, Water, Clouds, Knives Agar Avantgarde art magazine, 00:19:34

Stephen Soreff – Proofsheet/Prop, archive

Graphic design drawn with black marker on white gloss card. Black text on gloss cardboard

Steffan Soreff – The Flying Eye
Box with plain and props, collection (unintended)

Props from project inc. model airplane, instructions on cardboard, partial map of Netherlands and graphic of satellite in space. Various inc. plastic, electronics, cardboard, printed paper.
Project descriptions: With a manual remote control, TV viewers can steer a ‘flying eye’ from their living rooms. It’s even possible to scout the Sahara this way. Better yet, a race between two ‘flying eyes’ can be settled at home like the one shown here, where red and blue eyes race each other low over the waterways between Arnhem and Rotterdam. This invention of American artist Stephen ‘s Soreff, whose work field is the (imaginable) future, offers a surprising glimpse of the democratic possibilities of TV anno 1991. The Flying Eye was inspired by and conducted by the Appel Foundation and produced by MonteVideo. Both English and Dutch versions exist; the latter was broadcasted 20.06.1981 on Mokum TV, a pirate station.