In the second part of his lecture, Erkki Huhtamo links the contemporary media device Google Glasses to an archaeological  background. In this way he focuses on the fact that what may seem new things often prove to be just newly packaged ideas repeated during hundreds and sometimes even thousand years. On this heated discussed issue he reflects on the importance of the look at the device , that should be also focussing on the values related context of the device. In consequences this kind of scientific approach leads for example to visual cultural investigations about Vision-Power- Imprisonment in our nowadays media culture in general.

He demonstrates in the first part of his lecture, how media archaeology, an emerging approach in media studies, make sense of the media apparatus, stressing the fact of the need for a constant dialog between earlier forms of media culture and contemporary forms.

Later on, when he moved to Paris, this experience turned into his first documentary film Aqabat-Jaber (1987), which was shown at Cinéma du Réel Film Festival at Centre Georges Pompidou and won the first prize. After this initial success, Sivan continued to make films, which have one after another  won prizes, but also initiated severe public debates. His films Izkor, Jaffa: An Orange’s Clockwork, Route 181, The Specialist have all achieved the status of cult documentary films. Nevertheless, Route 181 was censored in France and after severe accusations also peaked into a law suit.

Eyal Sivan is often marked with labels of controversy and politics. But, to put it in his words, the very nature of work in a public space inflicts a responsibility and there is no such thing as a non-political author. When asked about his status of a controversial author he calmly replies: „The label of controversy says nothing about me, but it says a lot about the person who uses it. In other words: if I wouldn’t be called controversial, what would I be? A consensual author? I would rather go to sleep…”.