Little Eyes (Torturing Kentuki) | Database of Machine Vision in Art, Games and Narratives

Brief description

After her kentuki brushes against her breast, Alina becomes obsessed with the thought that the anonymous "dweller" in her kentuki is an old pervert. She places the kentuki in a bowl so it can't move, and places an iPad in front of it so that it cannot see anything except the screen of the iPad. On the first occasion, she plays a porn video featuring an old man and a kentuki. The second time, she plays a video of a decapitation. She leaves the room on both occasions, leaving the kentuki trapped with no choice other than to turn itself off or view the videos. She also breaks off her crow kentuki's beak and cuts off its wings.

Much later, we find out that Alina's kentuki is actually controlled by a seven year old child.

Pull Quotes

Alina paused the video. She didn't know if she wanted to see what came next, but she'd just gotten an idea for something that would finally pull her out of her malaise. She took one of the benches from the kitchen and carried it to the middle of the living area. She put the kentuki in a small ceramic bowl, head down, so it couldn't move. It fit like a ridiculous little hat, but it held the kentuki firmly. She put the bowl on the bench in front of her open tablet. She made a few adjustments to be sure the kentuki could see perfectly, arranging things so that the video was all it could see. Then she pressed Play again. There were still thirty-seven minutes of action left, and there was nowhere the Colonel could escape to. (page 116)