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81. The Janus Machine
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While sitting at the chair in front of the scanner you are bathed in structured light, allowing the shape of your profile to be digitized and archived. This portrait, an attempt to capture your likeness in three dimensions, is compared to a library of other portraits captured in the same manner. From these comparisons emerges an outline of the captured form: a playful perspective on your relationship to others, built from light, inviting you to explore further.
Janus is a god from Roman mythology, strongly associated with transitions and duality: young and old, coming and going, or the past and future. Janus is often depicted with two faces, each facing in opposite directions. "The Janus Machine" offers a modern corollary for this ancient metaphor and mythology: the real face, and the one stored by the computer.
Kyle McDonald kylemcdonald.net/
Zachary Lieberman thesystemis.com/
Theodore Watson theowatson.com/
Daito Manabe daito.ws/
Currently installed at Ars Electronica Center through September 2011.
Janus is a god from Roman mythology, strongly associated with transitions and duality: young and old, coming and going, or the past and future. Janus is often depicted with two faces, each facing in opposite directions. "The Janus Machine" offers a modern corollary for this ancient metaphor and mythology: the real face, and the one stored by the computer.
Kyle McDonald kylemcdonald.net/
Zachary Lieberman thesystemis.com/
Theodore Watson theowatson.com/
Daito Manabe daito.ws/
Currently installed at Ars Electronica Center through September 2011.
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To bad the Amsterdam exhibition is closed during the weekend
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