This is an excerpt from ReConstitution 2008, a performance series by Sosolimited. All three presidential debates were remixed live, as they happened, for theatre audiences. The first debate remix took place at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. This is footage from a DV cam in the back row, and that is why it sounds canned.

In this vignette, The locations of every face in the frame are found automatically by the software. Everything that is not a face is removed. At the press of a button, we can take snapshots of their faces, building a collage of recent expressions.