Takahiko Iimura – Observer/Observed and Other Works of Video Semiology

A video trilogy of "Camera, Monitor, Frame", "Observer/Observed", and "Observer/Observed/Observer", used to create a semiology of video as a video work rather than a written text. The main aim is a study of the structural relationships of video and language using English. Based on the feedback system of video, I assigned the system into the relation of the observer and the observed using the words as "I" and "You". What I am concerned with is the structure of "seeing" involved for both the observer and the observed as in a sentence of "I see you", which is posited by the closed-circuit system of video. The video is the remake of 1975-76 version in shorter length without changing the concept.