| 'Long Live the New Video Flesh' |
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| Nancy Diniz & Cesar Branco |
| Portugal |
2004 |
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exhibitied at:
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| WIP Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal, 2004 |
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'Long Live the New Video Flesh' is an interactive projection based installation that seeks out to create reciprocity between human emotions and virtual/physical space. The main aim is to translate an emotional huma topology into a digital one. The way this is achieved is by creating a reall time three dimensional video wall that renders live footage from a webcam. The algorithm captures image stills, resizes them and renders each pixel of the image as a box which then can change size and be subjected to a series of behaviours. The way emotions are then mapped is by recognizing facial features in the video images and maps them into a matrix using a computer-vision based motion capture module.
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Facial features like a glimpse of a smile for example are captured and associated with a 'happy colour' and a 'happy behaviour' like a wave/ripple effect and other rulers are programmed for the capture and translation to the video wall of other emotional states. In this experiment not much nuanced transitional states were programmed making the changes abrupt and fast, mostly just trigerring attention from passers by.
The ultimate application is speculate on an architecture that can help on altering states of mind. ie: hospitals, elderly homes, kindergardens, etc.
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