This installation is a critical take on intelligent machines. A feedback loop ties a 3D portrait, a camera, a robotic mirror, and a machine-learning model that mimics self-awareness through facial recognition.
Narcissus searches for its reflection, learns from it, and changes through unstable exchanges. It uses Lacan's mirror stage as a metaphor and asks how far an artificial being can be taken as self-aware. It was shown and published at ISMAR Fukuoka 2015 and xCoAx Bergamo 2016, and it received support from Pro Helvetia.
Team
Eugen Danzinger, Andrés Villa Torres.
Technologies
C#, C++, Python, Arduino, computer vision, Unity, machine learning.
Partners
Labor 5020, ISMAR, xCoAx, Pro Helvetia.
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