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**[|Cinimod Studios]**
I met Dominic just this past month at the [|Lightwave Festival] in Dublin Ireland where he, with the help of fellow artist Chris O’Shea, was exhibiting his interactive lighting and architectural piece – Beacon. In short, he designed a grid of rolling lights that were installed on the floor of an empty room. The lights were programmed to entice an audience to come and interact with them by acting out "quirky" synchronized behaviors. However, once a viewer/participant entered the room, they unknowingly triggered a series of thermal sensors in the ceiling that tracked their movement. The rolling lights then immediately stopped their previous action and, all at once, turned to face the viewer. They proceeded to follow the viewer’s every move until they left the thermal sensors range. At first this piece did not stand out to me, but the more time I spent interacting with it, the more respect I developed for its complexity, sensitivity and the lasting sense of alarm it left me with. This piece, while playful enough to entertain and spark curiosity, has a dark side that reveals the UK’s strong culture of public surveillance.

Benjamin Carpenter 511

==Tatsuo Yotsukura, Shigeo Morishima, Frank Nielsen, Kim Binsted and Claudio S. Pinhanez
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HyperMask is a system which projects an animated face onto a physical mask worn by an actor. As the mask moves within a prescribed area, its position and orientation are detected by a camera and the projected image changes with respect to the viewpoint of the audience. The lips of the projected face are automatically synthesized in real time with the voice of the actor, who also controls the facial expressions. As a theatrical tool, HyperMask enables a new style of storytelling. As a prototype system, we upt a self-contained HyperMask system in a trolley (disguised as a linen cart), so that it projects onto the mask worn by the actor pushing the trolley

http://www.sonycsl.co.jp/person/nielsen/PT/hypermask/hypermask.html

Rosemary Alonso