mirror

Living Mirror

C-Lab – Howard Boland (UK), Laura Cinti (UK)

A mirror consisting of a liquid filled with bacteria. A camera scanning your face creates a magnetic field with the information, to which the bacteria respond. The result is that you look at a portrait of yourself, designed by bacteria.

PRESSURE

Julian Pixel Schmiederer (AT), Gregor Franz (AT), Johannes Rass (AT), Lara Rabitsch (AT)

The movie is a mirror of modern society where uniqueness is demonized, where striving for freedom is something uncommon and where chasing your dreams is not cool anymore. In a society like this it´s hard for people to identify themselves, because we are taught not to be different. We are always trying to push our psychological limits to the edge, just to do what others think is good for us. The film is dealing with these issues and looks at them from an artistic perspective.

RASA-BOX

Iris Long (CN), Deng Hanbin (CN), Wu Tiancheng (CN)

Rasa is a “mirror” – it evaluates your “emotional state” in real-time based on your gestures. The project explores the limits of the comfort zone of the “privacy of one’s own feelings.” A camera and the algorithms will detect in real-time the skeleton data of the viewers and deduce their emotional state in order to write a sentence that falls in the same emotion category.

tx-mirror

Martin Reinhart (AT), Virgil Widrich (AT)

The real-time installation tx-mirror is a magical mirror with a camera: visitors can look at themselves and explore the laws of a universe where time and space have been reversed.