<Face to Face>

Video 7'30"

Keywords: Cyberspace, Cyborg Anthropology, Face Detection, Virtual Reality.

This is a self-reflective video essay, which narrates the social-psychological influence and intimate connections between Digital Interaction (biotechnology) and Users (human) in a personal case. In order to communicate about social anxieties, struggles on presentation, as well as a fascination of digital identity. Through the poetic and fictional visual storytelling, I display a blended character of the “modern cyborg” between “self” and “others” (otherness), “human” and “machine”, “inner space” and “outside space”. The final work is a two-screen video installation, which presents a mirroring effect on the audience by applying real-time facial sensor and emotion detection. As the Master graduation work, combining with theoretical and interdisciplinary research, including facial recognition technology, cybernetics, compensation and spirituality in the digital world, the whole project is an attempt to provide a personal perspective on how technology reflects us as well as the humanness in relationships to machines. In 2020 this project serie 2.0 has been upgrade into an immersive artwork, an AR experience scenario, which includes face filters interactions (on the Instagram platform) for a hybrid storytelling.