Face Visualizer by Daito Manabe @ Transmediale
February 8th, 2011Last Friday I had the chance to see Daito Manabe perform with his Face Visualizer live during the Transmediale festival in Berlin. The Face Visualizer is a tool which lets people’s faces move artificially in sync with music through electroshocks produced with the Max/MSP programming platform. I’m pretty sure you’ve seen the videos of his first tests like these ones here.
He performed together with Ei Wada, who definitely was quite surprised by some of the electroshocks.
video by ledo224
© Jonathan Gröger / transmediale
© Jonathan Gröger / transmediale
The day before the performance, Daito held a presentation of his work at the agency I work for. Not only was he kind enough to do so, he also brought me a present: my own Pa++ern t-shirt. Pa++ern is a project he did together with Motoi Ishibashi, it was basically an embroidery machine connected to twitter.
THANK YOU GUYS!
February 8th, 2011 at 2:44 am
Whoa,
That’s my design to the left of yours; the dark shirt with little yellow people on it…
I had no idea they had actually executed it!
cheers,
-GS
February 8th, 2011 at 8:46 am
mmm
Daito Manabe, with his Face Visualizer, reminds me Stelarc and his Ping Body (1996)
> http://artelectronicmedia.com/document/stelarc-ping-body
From body to head…
Friendly,
AS
February 8th, 2011 at 10:10 am
@Alan
Stelarc was one of Daito’s inspirations.
February 9th, 2011 at 9:59 am
Ok !
In all cases, they bring a lot of humor in this.
A
February 16th, 2011 at 7:34 pm
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