The Opto-Isolator sculpture is a black box, a prototype that incorporates robotic technology into artwork to make it more lively. Eventually, there will be some artworks that can exchange eye contacts with human. The black box is having a human-sized eye mounted on the center. It responds well to the gaze of whoever is staring at it.
The black box has a series of psychosocial eye-contact behaviors such as looking into the viewer’s eyes directly, studying the viewer’s face, looking away coyly when it’s been stared for too long that makes it uncomfortable, and follows a few blinking exercises with the viewer’s eyes. And the blinking action is also accompanied with pretty loud sound.
This will eventually be incorporated into human face or animal head sculpture, which the eyes will blink and exchange eye contacts with the viewers. Can you imagine how frightening is it, walking along the dark corridor of an sculpture art gallery, with many eyes on the wall staring at you?
The Opto-Isolator was designed and built by Golan Levin and Greg Baltus, and was recently exhibited at the Bitforms Gallery in New York.
via [OhGizmo]
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