Shaping Characters
Category: Art Installation
Team: Joakim Quach & myself
Role: Design & Installation
Date: December 2016
Background
We all 'perform' on social media but that's not who we really are. ‘Shaping Characters’ is an exploration of social media portraits through text interaction. Joakim and I partnered up to do an interactive text generative art that uses Processing and Kinect. We found the spring physics library and we tried it and got a nice effect so we kept it.
Art Installation
To decide what the text should be was a challenge because on one hand we thought it doesn’t matter and on the other, we realize this could be seen as someone’s identity mirror. The installation displays tweets from the user and projects them on the wall. The user can interact with the text through a Kinect. Each user can put in their twitter username in order to get their own ‘personalized’ portrait.
