I created together with Jelle Mastenbroek and Bas Bakx an interactive installation that is focused on AI systems in the current camera technology’s. In our installation camera’s react to the visitor. The person is seated on a chair and in a fraction of a second their estimated age and gender is displayed on a screen. This is entirely guessed by the AI in the camera we use. its quite accurate. After seeing their age and gender camera’s are spying on the visitor in real live. If the visitor looks at one it hides or looks away in a human kind of way. It’s fun but also terrifying.

We wanted to make the invisible visible. Camera’s are tracking us everywhere and do know a lot more about us than we know. In this installation its becoming visual and things are reacting to just just your eye movement! making people aware of their surroundings and the possibility’s of this technology.

We used a highly advanced camera that’s been in use in the industries for years now. It can read facial expressions, eye movement, gender and age. We translated this information to a screen and to physical objects by using servo’s and motors that are all using 3d printed mounts. By using 3d printers it allowed us do build this installation super quick.

We used about 9 servo’s and 1 motor for the camera’s to move. The framework is build with steel and all the mounts for the servo’s and camera’s where 3d printed. The installation is about 5 meter wide 3 meter deep and 3 meter high.
The camera we used was a Omron B5T-007001-020H

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