 Tell Me the Truth is an interactive artwork that consists of a rectangular mirror on the wall, about 20 inches high. When approached, the mirror transforms the viewer's face into the iconic artist, Andy Warhol. This transformed image reflects and mimics the viewer's movements. When the gestures, faces or behavior of the viewer are out of range with the character, the star takes over and plays his own persona, occasionally reciting a short, typically Warholian sentence like: "That's great," and "Wow, that's amazing." Because of perspective and sight-lines, the experience is unique to the viewer.
When a person approaches the mirror a video tracking system is activated, gradually turning the mirror transparent and displaying the avatar on a LCD display. The mirror, when illuminated from behind, obscures the viewers image while Warhol's shines through the material.
You can follow the project's development here
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Tell Me the Truth
(streaming)
April, 2010
Camera : Michael Naimark
Editing : Scott Fitzgerald
Tell Me the Truth raw footage
(streaming)
April, 2010
Tell Me the Truth
demonstration 01 (streaming)
October, 2009
credits: Stephen Guerin and August Swanson
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Tell Me the Truth at Ronald Feldman Gallery 01
June, 2010
Tell Me the Truth at Ronald Feldman Gallery 02
June, 2010
Tell Me the Truth at Ronald Feldman Gallery 03
May, 2010
Tell Me the Truth at Ronald Feldman Gallery 04
May, 2010
Tell Me the Truth 01
April, 2010
Tell Me the Truth 02
April, 2010
Tell Me the Truth 03
April, 2010
Tell Me the Truth technical demonstration 01
October, 2009
credits: Stephen Guerin and August Swanson
Tell Me the Truth technical demonstration 02
October, 2009
credits: Stephen Guerin and August Swanson
Marie Sester, Concept and Direction
Scott Fitzgerald, Project Manager
August Swanson, Darkling Simulations, LLC, System Design and Programming
Stephen Guerin, Redfish Group, Systems Design
Skyler Swanson, Darkling Simulations, LLC, Texturing
Cory Strassburger, 3D Modeler and Texturing
David Pietricola, Technical Animation / Voice Acting
/ 3D Modeler and Texturing
Simon Mehalek, Technologist
Maria Mendez, Computer Vision
Christopher Cummings, Design Engineering
Jesse Gilbert, Additional Audio Recording
Special thanks for Motion Capture:
Paul Debevec, Executive Producer, Graphic research, Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California
Andrew Jones, Graduate Research Assistant, Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California
Special thanks for Facial Tracking Software:
Nick Langdale-Smith, Seeing Machines (faceAPI)
Additional thanks to:
Guy Perry, Actor, Andy Warhol impersonation, Hollywood Agency
Yoav Freund, professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego
Todd Margolis, "Calit2 / CRCA", Technical Director, Center for Research in Computing and the Art, University of California, San Diego
Bryce Wolkowitz, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery
Deger Cengiz
My personal thanks go to:
Sean Elwood, Creative Capital Foundation, Director of Artist Programs
Michael Naimark
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