"Snow Mirror", 2007
computer, custom software, video camera, projector, silk
variable dimensions
edition of 6
For more than a decade Rozin’s art has employed a wide range of materials including chrome spheres, flat wood panels, and city trash from the streets of New York. Software art that links screen-based performance with real-time video processing has been another focus of Rozin’s efforts since the mid-1990s. The "Snow Mirror", which uses…
Viewer’s movement and expressions are mimicked by an animal’s head which is overlaid on the viewer’s reflection. From the viewer's perspective the animal image appears directly on top of their own.
http://www.gravitytrap.com/artwork/perfect-creatures
Made using
FaceTracker library from Jason Saragih (web.mac.com/jsaragih/FaceTracker/FaceTracker.html),
ofxFaceTracker addon by Kyle McDonald (github.com/kylemcdonald/ofxFaceTracker)
openFrameworks…
The vision here is made using the amazing astronomy photographs of Marek Dobiecki, artist, teacher and astronomer, panetix.com . Dobiecki has built himself an observatory in his backyard in the Dandenong ranges where he tracks the night sky with his computer controlled f4.5 x 30cm Newtonian Telescope capturing galaxies, nebulae and star fields. The photographs are wonderfully fragile, textured, grayscale images of up to 2 hours exposure time revealing…
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