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About The Piece

SELF REINFORCEMENT explores the relationship between HUMANS, COMPUTERS, and how they “see” and interact with each other.

The piece allows for a HUMAN to work with a COMPUTER to create a HUMAN-like form using the video feed from multiple cameras observing the gallery crowd. The video feed is processed in real time by the BodyPix Tenserflow.js library to isolate body parts.

A HUMAN, via a control box, can assign the feed from any of the video feeds, to a body part. The result is a body-collage that may have many heads, torsos, and so on. The HUMAN and COMPUTER work together to create a representation of a person. Both the strengths and biases of each are combined to create the final representation.

ITP Winter Show - Spring 2019

The Setup

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Show Time

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The “Thinking” Part

Ideas and Research

Idea 1

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Idea 2

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The “How I Made It” Part

Overview

Materials

Sketches

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Fabrication

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