Interactive Art+
HONORARY MENTION
Installation
The key intention of the ECHO project is to create a vehicle for the exchange of empathy, blurring the boundary with oneself and the other. As the world becomes more complex and digitally connected, the role of empathy is becoming increasingly important as an antidote to personal loneliness and ideological isolation.
ECHO explores connection through the exchange of personal narrative and facial identity. Touch screen, real-time facial tracking technology combines with animation, storytelling, and portraiture to highlight the intersections between strangers.
The work is iterative, allowing you to donate your own story and build into an embodied archive of cross-cultural experience that elicits compassion. For the presentation in Linz, local graffiti artists were invited to design the walls of a space that recalls a photo booth.
Credits:
Georgie Pinn (Electric Puppet) (UK/AU)
Creative producer: Kendyl Rossi (CA/AU)
Software developer: Jeremy Boulton (AU)
