2023.03.25 Sat. - 2023.03.26 Sun.OPEN : 10:30 - 20:00/SPACE : CONTRAST
NEW MEDIA ART EXHIBITION
EVENT
2023.03.25 Sat. - 2023.03.26 Sun.
OPEN : 10:30 - 20:00 / SPACE : CONTRAST
1-49-4, TOMIGAYA, SHIBUYA KU, TOKYO TO, 151-0063
CONCEPT
LIKE takes a bird’s-eye view
of the modern, streamlined love.
Love used to require a slow approach to win over the other person’s heart. Nowadays, dating apps allow us to instantly approach and communicate with multiple people. The use of technology has managed to lower the hurdles of meeting and developing love, birthing a new kind of relationship process compared to a decade ago. Love is changing from “LOVE” to “LIKE.”
In this piece, a smartphone with a virtual dating app and an automatic swipe machine are displayed in frames. Searching for a match based on facial features, ethnicity/race, and the similarities of colors in each image, the machine automatically swipes “LIKE” or “NOPE.”
When a match is made, a digital human with characteristics of both is born, leading it to grow rapidly to the age where they can use dating apps.
The piece makes it possible to witness the efficient modern “love” and “breeding” by repeating this cycle semi-permanently.
We consider this transformation of modern love to be the first step into a realm untouched by mankind. By exhibiting smartphones and automatic swipe machines in picture frames - like a painting that cuts out a scene where Adam and Eve meet. We express the sacredness of it all.
Though “love” is a basic innate impulse for most human beings, we let intelligence intervene to make the process more efficient.
Peeking with a bird’s eye view to an inorganic love cycle streamlined by LIKE, the viewers are allowed space to ponder about modern society and the future.
SOFTWARE
- Unity
- Node.js
- Arduino IDE
- MySQL Version： 5.7.36
- Original Python Code
- Children’s faces generator based StyleGAN
- Matching algorithms utilizing categorical features such as face image features and estimated attributes
HARDWARE
- iPhone XS , iPhone X
- Stepper Motor - Controlled by Motor Driver
- ESP-WROOM-32
- Magnetic Rotary Position Sensor
- Conductive Fiber
- Original PCB
- Dekstop PC - Generate and Match Digital Humans
- Display - V**isualize Digital Humans**
- Wireless Network
CREDIT
[ Artwork by NOLL Inc. and Shimpei Miura ]
NOLL Inc. Project member
Genya Ohashi / Takuro Kawashima / Jun Inagaki / Madoka Ashida
アート×テクノロジーをより高次な地点で追求し、 新しい時代の可能性を創造するクリエイティブユニット「NOLL」 アート・ブランド・エクスペリエンス・R&D、それぞれの側面からクリエイティブを創出し、既成概念と常識を超えた価値観の「次」を常にアップデートしていく。