It was an exciting night with huge crowds visiting the gallery to view all the artwork and take part in H2Geneous.
Stepping up to H2Geneous participants added their image to the community of faces. Each image was fragmented into key areas and added to the rich diversity of faces representing the community. H2Geneous recombined the fragments providing a reflection our collective image in an ever–evolving series of composite images that changed over time.
Participants saw fragments of their own face combined with those of fellow gallery goers. An eye was be paired with a stranger’s grin, a friend’s ear, and someone else’s nose; all collaged together to create a unique ever changing portrait.
Throughout the evening H2Geneous composited images were projected into the gallery window, looking out onto Queen Street West. The installation continuously grew with face fragments emerging and looping at random.
You can read more about H2Geneous here. The video was taken the night of Nuit Blanche and explains the exhibition and the installation in more detail.
- The "Grabber" which recorded a still image of participants. The images were collected and saved using an HD webcam and 2 plugins - Myron webcamxtra and DirectImage.
- The "Projector" which ran in a continuous loop constructing and deconstructing faces composited from parts of the collected images. Various random strategies were used to keep the composites from being too repetitive.
This was the perfect opportunity to allow me to get back into Director and Lingo development and programming. Hopefully I will have some more opportunities to use this digital media tool which has served me well over the years.
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