Eye Robot, 2011, with Robert Wilson
Goldring and her interdisciplinary team at MIT collaborated with Robert Wilson, American avant-garde stage director and playwright, to develop technologies that address issues of blindness and partial sight using robotics. During a four-day workshop in the ACT Cube, they rehearsed new scenes for “My New Friend SU: The Moon’s Other Side,” a theatrical collaboration in which Goldring’s “Eye Robot” played a role. The piece used Goldring’s texts and seeing technologies.
Eye Robot, 2011
Eye/Sight, 1990, with Vin Grabill
Elizabeth Goldring and Vin Grabill created an interactive video installation, "EYE/SIGHT", featuring a live camera and two-channel (one small screen set into a larger screen) video display. This video is a digital simulation of the installation. (See "EYE/SIGHT installation documentation" for a view of the installation). When a viewer sat in an "examination" chair, he/she was able to peer into a camera lens that was set to insert a close-up image of a his/her eye into the video mix. The inner video screen showed edited footage of Elizabeth's diagnostic eye exams, and the outer video screen showed video footage of retinal images until a viewer sat in the chair, at which point the outer screen switched to a live video image of the viewer's own eye. Audio from the diagnostic footage is projected into the space, but when a viewer puts on a set of available headphones, the ambient audio is muted, and the voice of Elizabeth speaking poems from her Eye Journals can be heard. "EYE/SIGHT" was exhibited in the 1990 "Options" show at the Washington Project for the Arts (WPA), as well as in exhibitions in New York and Germany.