HYP X - PROJECT PROFILE - HYPERMEDIUM AN AUTONOMOUS NEW MEDIA MACHINE OF CAPTURE THAT PRODUCES HYPER DIMENSIONAL PORTRAITURES AS DIGITAL ARTEFACTS EXCHANGED SEAMLESSLY TO THE SUBJECT IN THE SAME FASHION OF 20TH CENTURY ANALOG PHOTO BOOTHS -  # AN ACCUMULATION OF REVELATIONS   ### Deferring objects to empty signifies delays their affects; a mirroring that reflects endlessly >When there is echoing, there is time and space. It is affect of a delay in time and space, a signal that repeats while it repeats and mutates- A new media regime of [[perception]] is on the horizon which can critically and creatively be infused with an emancipatory mythos. The act of art making can be a moment of [[ontological]] uncertainty and potentially liberating, specifically, through the perspective of feminist art therapy which sees images as producing and being produced through a ‘self in process’.   The 'Hypercube' as it came to be was first iterated as a 6’x6’x6’ new media installation that aimed at exploring the affective charges linked to new technologies of [[representation]]. By having subjects confront their own image in a technologized space, through a multitude of prisms, I sought to produce innovative visual research-through-production on ideas of self-presentation, self-visualization and the meaning of exploring one’s agency through one’s affect.  ## How do you make a camera interactive?  Target Tracking : Dynamic object tracking Multiple off-the shelf [[time-of-flight]] depth sensors such as Intel’s RealSense 3D cameras will be installed to feed real-time skeletal tracking of subjects for interactivity between the subject and camera.   Robotic Camera Arm : 6-Degrees of freedom  A smaller scale DYI fabrication or the implementation of a commercially available robotic camera arm with 6-axis of freedom to control rotation, elevation and distance in relation to the subject. With the creation of dynamic self-looping temporal photographs in mind, the camera will be programmed to interact with the subjects being tracked in real-time. The movement of the camera in relation to its feedback loop and the subjects themselves is essential.  ## INTERFACING  UI - Interacting with your own image creations  Momentos will be delivered to the subjects via an interactive screen on the rear-projected wall. These hyper lapsed moments of movement and interaction will be sent to any bluetooth or wifi enabled phone in the vicinity of the machine.  PROJECTION WALL || CAPTURE WALL  The rear-Projected wall is situated opposite to the ‘capture’ wall as its own Module housing the projector. This module will house an off the shelf Short-Throw Projector such as the Optoma GT1090HDR. This 'digital' [[mirror]] is created by directing the camera’s real-time output to the projector, thus creating a feedback loop between camera and projection. This interactive environment has the potential for a haptic visuality, where the subject can interact with the projection wall in an infinite array of possibilities starting from the simple function of acting as an interface to share photos with the user.  Direct syncing with Ableton Live, to full MIDI and OSC support, to doubling as a lighting control desk using DMX protocols.    >"In all the arts there is a physical component which can no longer be considered or treated as it used to be, which cannot remain unaffected by our modern knowledge and power. For the last twenty years neither matter nor space nor time has been what it was from time immemorial. We must expect great innovations to transform the entire technique of the arts, thereby affecting artistic invention itself and perhaps even bringing about an amazing change in our very notion of art.”      ### Psychoanalytical & [[semiotic]] Underpinnings ![[THEORY]] ![[Competitors]]