HeadHunter - an interactive networked artwork that looks and remembers.
These HeadHunter images give some idea of the artwork but rotating screendumps look static compared to live interaction where individual heads fade in and out and the image reacts to the observer.
Go visit Montie at the Gouvernestraat 271, Rotterdam (tue-sat, 10:00-22:00) for the experience.
See the real thing and have your head hunted...
Software Mosaics
HeadHunter is an evolution of seeMe.ath.cx, another interactive networked artwork that looks at you and remembers. It is exhibited at the World Music and Dance Centre since January 2009.Both works are software mozaics: Standard Open Source software packages glued together with scripts to create something new.
HeadHunter creates an interactive visual experience. The artwork looks back at you. It reacts to the observer. It feeds back associations about the observer in the form of a matrix of transformed fading images of current and past observers.
Technical
The core of these artworks is motion - a well known Linux security cam package. When something moves in front of the cam, motion creates start and stop events and a stream of pictures capturing the action.Each picture is processed with openCV - the Intel Open Computer Vision framework. OpenCV is used for feature detection, in the case of HeadHunter face detection.
The faces are cropped from the picture with ImageMagick, run through a visual effects pipeline to create 'photoscoping' and transparent fade effects.
The resulting images are fed into the isk-daemon - a fast content-based image database with easy integration to web sites.
Apache, HTML, javascript and PHP are used to create the final dynamic display. The result is rendered with google-chrome.
All sources are available on request.
New Locations...
I want to create a network of software Mosaics, connected through the internet, whereby the individual pieces exchange information and images.I am looking for hosts-locations, locations of a (semi) public nature to place more of these pieces.
Because of its design, the artwork can double as a security camera which can make hosting a piece economically attractive.
Please email honzasvasek@gmail.com for more information.