A randomly chosen character observes the spectator from a glass screen. From his pose and the framing of the shot, he seems to be waiting to be portrayed. The character will carry on like this, breathing and blinking, until the spectator touches the screen. Then, he will come out of his immobility responding with the same gesture, placing his hand and gaze on the user’s hand, following any route it follows. Trapped in this small sequence of gestures the portrayed character meets the present one at an instant of simulated communion, which expresses both the will for communication and the impossibility of it actually happening.
- Interactive portrait
In an age where a ruling paradigm regarding technological art is physical interactivity, it’s only natural that one of the oldest visual representation practices, that of portrayal, transforms accordingly. This fact has been acknowledged in literature and cinema, thus interactive portraits have become integrated into our image of the future. [...]
randomly chosen character observes the spectator from a glass screen. From his pose and the framing of the shot, he seems to be waiting to be portrayed [...]
After interacting with the portrayed character, some spectators will probably wish to become themselves part of the work by being portrayed. [...]
Frontera v.2 / portrait is an interactive installation that works mainly with real-time video manipulation in response to the user’s actions. Technically speaking, this work is based on computer vision and motion tracking technologies. A first version of the interactive portrait (Frontera v.1) was developed at the Center for Multimedia, Mexico, and has been successfully [...]
Festivals and institutes where Frontera v.1 and v.2 has been shown. [...]
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