Description and concepts: Expanded Eye is an interactive light sculpture composed by a big transparent eye sculpture suspended from the ceiling; the big eye looks to the user, but it's in fact user's eye which is projected inside the sculpture. The sculpture recognizes the user’s eye blinking and generates an interactive animation based on it. Each blink of the user multiplies the number of eyes in the projection in a fragmented, hexagonal and dislocated way. The core of the piece is to expand the view of human beings, transforming the view into a multiple and hexagonal expansion as the ultra complex insect’s compounds eyes structure.
Expanded Eye project was developed during Interactivos? 2008 at Medialab Prado in Madrid, Spain.
It was developed in collaboration with:
Jacqueline Steck(www.jqln.org): Open Frameworks programming
Alvaro Cassinelli(www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/members/alvaro/Khronos/): Open Frameworks programming
Carles Gutiérrez: Open Frameworks programming
Oswald Aspilla Pérez: programming and construction of the structure
Picture of the building process. Software made with OpenFrameWorks, It recognizes the face and then
the eyes and each blink multiplies the number of eyes. Thanks for all the collaborators. more images on Flickr.
Pixel 08 : Code Dreams
How does code dream? What are the dreams of code? Bergen, Norway. From December 12th until January 15th, 2008. http://www.piksel.no/
MediaLab Prado, Interactivos08. Vision Play Madrid, Spain. From 30th May until 23th September, 2008. www.medialab-prado.es/