Installation art project presented at Sundance in 2012.
There were lots of moving pieces to this project. The part I was responsible for was an installation art piece where there was four iPads disguised to look like bear traps placed in various locations throughout Park City.
Each iPad had its forward-facing camera turned on and when someone would walk nearby, a facial-recognition engine would recognize that someone was in frame and would automatically take a photo of them. This was to mimic the research cameras scientists use to track animals in the wild.
On screen, in addition to the user seeing themselves, they also saw three other video areas. All four iPads were connected via a media server and so you could see what was in front of any of the other three iPads in realtime.
Once a photo was taken it was then automatically pushed to a dedicated Twitter account as well as saved to a database for the second half of the installation. This other aspect of it took the form of a large surveillance wall consisting of dozens of the images that were captured. The projection would then randomly enlarge and highlight one image at a time. It also featured live streams coming from one or more of the iPads.
I was responsible for programming the apps that resided on the four iPads as well as the surveillance wall animation that displayed the captured photos. I also integrated and perfected the facial recognition engine and the live video feed streaming between the iPads and the surveillance wall.
