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Golan Levin and Collaborators

Projects

12 2009. New Year Cards
04 2009. Merce's Isosurface
03 2009. ART AND CODE
02 2009. Code, Form, Space
10 2008. IEEE InfoVis 2008 Art Exhibition
07 2008. Double-Taker (Snout)
05 2008. Poster design for Maeda lecture
01 2008. Solo exhibition at bitforms gallery
11 2007. Opto-Isolator
11 2007. Eyecode
11 2007. Interstitial Fragment Processor
11 2007. Reface [Portrait Sequencer]
10 2007. IEEE InfoVis 2007 Art Exhibition
05 2007. Ghost Pole Propagator
08 2006. Footfalls
04 2006. Signal Operators
02 2006. The Dumpster
09 2005. Ursonography
09 2005. Scrapple (Performance)
09 2005. Scrapple (Installation)
08 2004. Motion Traces [A1 Corridor]
05 2004. The Manual Input Workstation
05 2004. The Manual Input Sessions
03 2004. Finger Spies
02 2004. Interactive Bar Tables
01 2004. Civic Exchange Prototype
12 2003. Messa di Voce (Installation)
09 2003. Messa di Voce (Performance)
07 2003. Amore Pacific Display
09 2002. Axis
09 2002. Hidden Worlds of Noise and Voice
09 2002. Re:MARK
05 2002. JJ (Empathic Network Visualization)
03 2002. Stria
02 2002. The Secret Lives of Numbers
10 2001. Dendron
09 2001. Dialtones (A Telesymphony)
05 2001. Alphabet Synthesis Machine
03 2001. Interactive Logographs
02 2001. The Role of Relative Velocity
01 2001. Obzok
09 2000. Scribble
08 2000. Segmentation and Symptom
07 2000. Introspection Machine
03 2000. Audiovisual Environment Suite
01 2000. Yellowtail
12 1999. Slamps
09 1999. Banded Clock
09 1999. Dakadaka
02 1999. Floccular Portraits
01 1999. Floccus
12 1998. Stripe
09 1998. Meshy
04 1998. Directrix
01 1998. Interval Projects
01 1997. Blebs
01 1997. Streamer
08 1996. Rouen Revisited
05 1994. Media Streams Icons

Reface [Portrait Sequencer]

2007 | Tmema (Golan Levin & Zachary Lieberman)

Reface [Portrait Sequencer] (2007: Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman) is a surreal video mash-up that composes endless combinations of its visitors' faces. Based on the Victorian "Exquisite Corpse" parlor game, the Reface installation records and dynamically remixes brief video slices of its viewers' mouths, eyes and brows.

Reface uses face-tracking techniques to allow automatic alignment and segmentation of its participants' faces. As a result, visitors to the project can move around freely in front of the display without worrying about lining up their face for the system's camera. The video clips recorded by the project are "edited" by the participants' own eye blinks. Blinking also triggers the display to advance to the next set of face combinations.

Through interactions with an image wholly constructed from its own history of being viewed, Reface makes possible a new form of inventive play with one's own appearance and identity. The resulting kinetic portraiture blends the personalities and genetic traits of its visitors to create a "generative group portrait" of the people in the project's locale.

The following one-minute video shows the Reface installation at Bitforms gallery, NYC, December 2007.

Reface [Portrait Sequencer] by Tmema from Tmema on Vimeo (also available at YouTube).

Additional Resources

High-resolution photos of Reface [Portrait Sequencer] can be found in this Tmema Flickr photoset.

Images (click to enlarge)