A face projected onto a screen showing eyes ears and a mouth, but all massize and jammed together, with the ears facing forwards and not necessarily all from the same person!
A project for the 2018 Candlelit Walk in Ford Park allowing people on the walk to create mutilated selfies using 3 web cams and a set of different face-mixing options.
Here it is running in demo mode before the event:
When actually in action people used the three webcams you can see on sticks at the front.
- Webcam 1 show the eyes. It mirrors the same eye so you can still see the screen with the other.
- Webcam 2 shows the ears, again mirroring the same ear on both sides.
- Webcam 3 is for the mouth.
- I didn't see the need for a nose!
I made the frame out of old bits of wood and spent ages melding plastic milk bottles together to make frankenstein style screens. I opted for paper in the end, but the milk bottle sheets got to live a year later for the Gill Witch.
As always I didn't get many pictures of it being used, but here are a few that people shared with me: