Rachel Smith and Tim Vischer

We want to develop an Interactive Artwork which captures the dominating clothing pattern of the wearers, then replicates and projects it back into the space, camouflaging the dominant wearer and engulfing all others in the pattern. The viewer can then enter the Installation and, using hand movements, erase the mapping, revealing the dominant wearer. This artwork connects to a sense of identity and awareness of digital trace, correspondingly relating to the physical world of clothing choices and decisions around making yourself visible.

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Pattern is selected

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Pattern is repeated

Technical Requirements:

Powerful Projector Two power sockets Table Laptop Two Webcams

One hour required for set-up. The performance will run throughout. Approx 10m^2 of space needed, as dark as possible. (Could also be portable with catering cart).

Initial Working Code Can be found here And here

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After initial testing, the decision was made to take out the 'erasing' feature as it felt unnecessary and unintuitive. Instead, we decided to double the installation, creating the opportunity for two people to interact simultaneously. Now, the pattern of one person is projected onto the other and vice versa.

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Patterns at various stages of merging. There are also instances of 'non-faces' being detected and therefore adding unexpected images into the mix.

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