Now that it’s over I can finally look back at the very special re-interpretation of the presidential debates by Boston Data Jockeys sosolimited performed live at the ICA this past September. They re-mixed the live television footage through computer vision and custom-made algorithms that analyzed the closed caption text in real time. The results are beautiful, erie and sometimes informative – making me wish for a soso@home that would allow me to perform real-time distortion and fact-checking on any television broadcast. The still above is taken from an episode entitled ‘Just Face It:’
The locations of every face in the frame are found automatically by the software. Everything that is not a face is removed. At the press of a button, we can take snapshots of their faces, building a collage of recent expressions
It’s worth taking a look at some of the clips from the show here below:
Just Face It (ReConstitution 2008) from Sosolimited on Vimeo.
You, Me, & The Other Guy (ReConstitution 2008) from Sosolimited on Vimeo.
Them’s Countin’ Words (ReConstitution 2008) from Sosolimited on Vimeo.