On the camera as enigma; has anyone seen Krzysztof Kieslowski's "Double Life of Veronique"?

I am interested in the camera as a enigmatic object. How is its use among us in the MoneyProject unknowingly affected (or infected) by those things inherent in the history of the object's development, and the composite of human relations that makes it's (the camera's) objecthood possible? We do not necessarily know the full weight of the tool we use. Can we really reduce it to how we use it?

Re: money itself. When in Europe, the popular metal for coinage became gold it fueled Columbus's torturous and murderous tirade in the Caribbean looking for a metal that was not readily available. According to Howard Zinn, he cut off the hands of Arawaks who failed to bring him gold, and eventually genocided them. Whole mountain sides were destroyed looking for gold. Now money is made of cheap materials and proliferates, it's not grounded in the earth, but in the abstraction of human relationships. Now the project is to concentrate that which is readily available, to constantly shift the meaning of quantity where $100 was a lot of money, and now $1,000,000 doesn't seem like that much. It is to make rare something that could be everywhere.

The Image of a Word

Kim- Isn't this whole project a critique of individual role playing in the theater of capital. Individual self dramatization gets at the underlying truth of ourselves as participants, willing and unwilling, in the exchange of self for other ( be it goods, property, status, security, etc. ) through the agency of the technical in whatever form we mediate ourselves?
"Art is the lie that reveals the truth." When we reveal ourselves as "players" we drop the social mask/ persona and a glimpse of the person as human becomes possible.
The person who questioned the use of the video camera responded well enough when he was the object of the camera's attention, ie: once he was included. We are simply offering a means to participate in a transactional awareness of the process of media exchange-in this case money- by using one form to observe another.
Capitalism is based on the fallacy of the technical- the premise that one can devise a system which, in and of its own operations, will produce the good. Moral isolation and social displacement are its environmental consequences. The Money Project, I feel, works towards sharing the social benefits of environmental awareness by distributing access to the necessary tools to any one who is interested in participating.