looking glass
Parabolic mirror and camera on custom robotic arm, custom electronics and code
2018
Looking glass is an interactive installation that explores the relationship between privacy and self. A deep neural network is used to analyze a camera feed of its surroundings. Using this data, a parabolic mirror is repositioned by a robotic arm to always be facing the current viewer.
The piece offers an explorative self-reflective study while focusing on the development of identity. Through introspective interactions, Looking glass challenges the notion of public vs private, and the experience a mirror provides by having it look back. Looking glass offers the means to exchange privacy for a distorted image of one’s self during times in which surveillance culture is one of the defining customs of our contemporary society and collective memory.
