SCAN LOOK EXPRESS

LOOK 1980 Portrait of Luis Frangella Interactive Frame Buffer Animation, 1980 Animation activated via user input (joystick or sensors)

LOOK 1980
Portrait of Luis Frangella
Interactive Frame Buffer Animation, 1980
Animation activated via user input (joystick or sensors)

LIPSYNC, SCAN/LOOK/EXPRESS comprise a series of interactive frame buffer animations based on the human face.  These works explored a new form of digital portraiture, the use of code to manipulate a character in real time, giving the computer a face.   

LOOK  Digital portrait of the artist Luis Frangella. The 25 images, originally 35mm transparencies, depict head movement. The frame buffer animation allowed manipulation via head tracking or joystick.

SCAN  Digital Portrait of Raleigh Perkins.  35mm transparencies depict eye movement in response to manipulation via eye-tracking or joystick.

EXPRESS  Digital Portrait of artist and gallerist Pat Hearn.  25 images selected from digital video animated to generate seven expressions in response to user input. 

Additional documentation on MIRROR ARCHIVE: Zero Bandwidth Video 

LOOK Interactive Animated Portrait of Luis Frangella
Peggy Weil 1981 / reprise 2024
GLoW Exhibition King’s College London 2024

LOOK - Interactive Portrait of Luis Frangella - Galleria Fundacio Suñol Barcelona 2011 from pweil studio on Vimeo.

SCAN
Portrait of Raleigh Perkins
Interactive Frame Buffer Animation, 1980
Animation activated via user input (joystick or eye tracking)

EXPRESS
Portrait of Pat Hearne
Interactive Frame Buffer Animation, 1980
Architecture Machine Group / MIT Media Lab
Animation activated via user input (joystick)

ZeroBandwithVideo 1 from pweil studio on Vimeo.

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