The object in focus is shown in a warmly lit exhibition space. A visitor stands in fromt of a vertical digital screen mounted on a dark grey makeshift wall. Two circular warm lights are positioned on each corner illuminating the visitor that stands in front of it. The visitor, sporting a long hair and is wearing a white sleeveless top with black pants, is standing straight with their hands clasp behind the back. The screen reflects a close-up of the visitor’s face with white lines outlining the facial features and jawline. Text and other graphic elements are shown on top of the projected image. With the distance of the image capture, the text appears very small in the photo and is indecipherable.

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Interactive Installation, Backstory: Expression Mirror

This is a Interactive installation. It was designed by Zachary Lieberman. Its medium is computer, camera, monitor, electronic components, and software (openframeworks (c++), python, keras). It is a part of the department.

In Zachary Lieberman's Expression Mirror, the faces of viewers generate unique animations. Shown here are the data at work in his project. Face-detection software tracks muscle movements at 68 locations on the face. Emotion-recognition software interprets these movements. As you mold you face into different expressions, Lieberman's system builds a database of eyes, noses, and mouths, finds emotional matches among those parts, and generates patterns of abstract lines that behave differently in response to different facial expressions. Together, these elements create dynamic social portraits.

It is credited Courtesy of Zachary Lieberman.