Installations

Still Untitled

Still Untitled comments on the intersection between surveillance and social media technology centering on the usage of facial recognition and machine learning. the work functions as a triptych including a headline generator, a facial-recognition powered AR face filter, and a surveillance-based headline paraphraser.

C3N5u5

C3N5U5 is a speculation on the future of data collection and polling. Viewers are prompted to add their feelings on current issues to a collected pool of responses. collected responses are then projected upon the surface of relevant landmarks and icons quite literally inscribing the opinions of the masses into the iconography of the American infrastructure. collectively all the responses are stored in a database for further use and examination.

Observers

Observers explores the structures and superstructures of surveillance by revealing the power dynamic that civilians are placed in through the means of sculpture and software projection. The utilitarian materials of the public space, coupled with highly graphic and stylized municipal and advertorial imagery are used to replicate the setting in which we are constantly surveyed. The combination of this jarring imagery and forced integration illuminates the anatomy and stratification of society along with the modification of our behavior due to the restraint of constantly being under scrutiny.

Facey Space

Collaboration W/ Micaela Haluko and Daryl Gerboth

The FaceySpace project is aimed at creating an alternative way to read facial expressions by pairing common facial queues to the RGB colorspace. the display piece contains two elements a large hanging RGB light fixture and an accompanying Android app. The android app investigates a number of common facial expressions and their visual queues. The RGB light fixture is controlled by a small computer with a webcam running an open-source face tracking software called faceOSC. Data from faceOSC is then translated via a custom piece of Processing(language) code that translates different facial movements to different shifts in the RGB color space. Finally, a custom-written driver sends the translated data via USB to an Arduino board running custom firmware that drives an off-the-shelf RGB light controller. 

AUDIOWALL ALPHA

This project was an attempt to combine installation art, interactive projection, and real-time audio performance. The piece combines open-source computer vision software with a custom programmed software bridge that communicates to both a real-time video application and to a piece of commercial audio performance software. Every printed sticker is paired to a jpeg image and a midi track. The placement and rotation of the stickers control both the location of the projected image and also audio effects paired to each axis of movement. This unique setting allows a group of strangers to create both new musical arrangements and projected visual patterns.