This week, I’ve been exhibiting my ongoing project, word.camera, at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam. My installation consists of four cameras:
- The original word.camera physical prototype:
- The sound camera physical prototype:
- A new word.camera model that uses a context-free grammar to generate poems based on the images it captures:
- A talking, pan-tilt-zoom surveillance camera that looks for faces in the hallway and then describes them aloud. (See also: this Motherboard video)
During the exhibition, I was also invited to deliver two lectures. Here are my slides from the first lecture:
And here’s a video of the second one:
Visitors are able to reserve the portable cameras for half hour blocks by leaving their ID at the volunteer kiosk. I have really enjoyed watching people borrow and use my cameras.
