Human Likes

by Stéphane Bissières

2016

Human Likes

by Stéphane Bissières

2016

Digital art

Immersive experience

Installation

Augmented reality

Science and technology

Digital art

Immersive experience

Installation

Augmented reality

Science and technology

Human Likes is an interactive installation that uses augmented reality to create links between people. A face detection system weaves a visible network between the different observers. Beyond the playful aspect, the installation speaks about the ambiguity of surveillance devices that extract invisible but omnipresent data. The observer who meets the "gaze" of the computer becomes part of the device without his knowledge. He can feel the disturbance of a Human / Machine interface initiated by the computer.

Screen, Video projector

Suitable for all audiences

Without dialogue

Update : 23/01/2023

Human Likes, interactive installation (Stéphane Bissières)

Human Likes (Stéphane Bissières)

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Human likes is an audiovisual interactive and performative dispositive using augmented reality to create link between strangers. The interaction is based on a face detection device used to design a visible interface between different observers. 

Beyond the playful side, it is about the ambiguity of a video surveillance society which one can hardly escape, with data extraction everywhere. It is about computer vision and how we are seen by the machine. Simply observe to enter the network and be interconnected in realtime to other observers.  The projected image is a video mirror. The device detects the faces of the spectators and interconnects them in real time, following their movements. Every observer enters the network and becomes a participant of the installation. It creates link between strangers while playing of the ambiguity of a self-surveillance society which one can hardly escape. Never alone, the individual is seen as a sum of data connected to those around him.