Electronic Art Changes to Suit Mood of Viewer 66
BFlatSeven writes "Reuters reports that 'British and American computer scientists have developed artwork that changes according to how the viewer feels. Special software picks up facial cues and adapts the color and brush strokes of the digital image.' The University of Bath has some pictures of the painting in action as well as a video and an abstract written by the creators."
Holy Shit (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Holy Shit (Score:2, Informative)
They could make this work. The problem is that they aren't at all concerned about what you want to see. It merely relects your mood, just a fancy mood ring, rather than showing you what your mood might want, nevermind what might be appropriate for your mood.
KFG
Re:Holy Shit (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Holy Shit (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Holy Shit (Score:4, Funny)
This is two thousand and six, man. Get with the times.
KFG
Re:Holy Shit (Score:2)
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Re:Holy Shit (Score:2)
What exactly is the "problem" with this? Some people prefer art consisting of pretty landscapes, some prefer art symbolizing man's eternal struggle to understand himself, some prefer art featuring dogs playing poker, some prefer art that abstractly conveys the artist's mood, and some prefer art that involves the viewer in the creation itself. I don
Re:Holy Shit (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Holy Shit (Score:2)
Re:Holy Shit (Score:2)
How best to provoke emotions is dependent on the mood of the viewer. If you are stressed and angry, and the artwork wants to make you happy, it needs to calm you down before showing funny clown pictures. Old-fashioned art doesn't have the option of changing how it tries to provoke emotions based on your mood.
Hell, this form of interactive mood manipula
Measure and control (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Measure and control (Score:1)
That's not a problem since, unless you are a sociopath, you would like to be happy. So improve the mood of unhappy people, and reinforce the happiness of t
Re:Measure and control (Score:2)
Nice-all-the-time isn't very thought-provoking.
Re:Measure and control (Score:2, Interesting)
Just wait until you start having a dysfunctional relationship with your "empathic" AI house.
I'll be keeping my manual controls, thank you very much.
KFG
Ya know, I normally don't stoop to this but... (Score:2)
Indeed (Score:2)
Indeed. Half of the world's population already experiences monthly oscillations. And the other half is painfully aware of this problem.
It is perhaps the oldest problem that has plagued humanity.
Well? (Score:2, Funny)
"It does all of this in real time, meaning that as the viewer's emotions change the artwork responds accordingly," he added in a statement.
In related news, Hentai stocks rose sharply.
Old News (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Old News (Score:1)
By the way, it's not late 90's, but early 21th century, as the film has been released in 2001 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218817/ [imdb.com].
Once again, Science Fiction becoming reality
Comment removed (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:How about the other way around (Score:2)
my first thought: (Score:4, Funny)
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No doubt it is electronic, (Score:1)
I thought art was about (human) creativity, about delivering a message via the selected method of expression; what i see in the TFA looks more like someone's first gimp exercise. Let's keep "art" out of it until the painting can understand the viewer and re-draws itself, or until the artist can decide how the painting reacts to emotions (and then wa
Re:No doubt it is electronic, (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:No doubt it is electronic, (Score:1)
Robotics (Score:2)
Looking ahead, I think this kind of technology would have more interesting applications in robotics.
As for whether or not it's art, there is some truth to the claim that art is in the eye of the beholder.
Re:Robotics (Score:2)
Or, alternately, in the medium term, for advertising. An electronic billboard could 'adapt' itself to viewers.
Great (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Great (Score:2)
Re:Great [Moderating Effect?] (Score:2)
eg. Sad -> Cheer you up
Anxious -> Calm you down etc..
I suppose you could find enormous uses for this in places like waiting rooms where everyone is just a little antsy. Just make sure that they have an adult lock on it -- wouldn't it be horrible to feel eerrr.. Frisky and have it show you something to moderate that mood? More likely then not, as proposed above, it would show you something you can "unsee" --
Re:Great [Moderating Effect?] (Score:2)
Why, oh why, did I search out and watch the video, when I knew that I was going to regret it?!? And I do. Oh, I do.
When a retro-sucks gamer looks at it (Score:3, Funny)
Haha, very funny (Score:1)
Scientists Don't "Develop" Art (Score:2)
Happy to help...
Re:Scientists Don't "Develop" Art (Score:1)
The 70s are back!! (Score:1)
Goth Art? (Score:2, Funny)
sweet lovin (Score:2)
Re:sweet lovin (Score:2)
Better get used to pictures of pairs of spherical objects at approximately 475 nm.
What's the purpose of art? (Score:2)
An emotional feedback loop (Score:2)
All of that would certainly be possible here as well. Change to *suit* the viewer, perhaps not, but probably better if it would react in certain ways to the viewer's emotions, taking the viewer's emotions elsewhere, which in turn would cause it to change again to take the user's emotions somewhere else, in what essentially amounts to a feedback loop. But then again, I believe that genre of art already exists. It's called a video game, although most people engaged in that art form don't think quite in those
it won't work... (Score:1)
Is there any practical application? (Score:1)
How Difficult Really (Score:2)
For use in airports (Score:2)
Since happy people are more likely to buy stuff, I this could be used for sales? Get people to volunteer to watch TV with one of these monitors. The networks want information on viewer reaction for the purpose of ad placement. The trick is to avoid feedback loops by having one audien
not necessarily feedback loops or non-provoking (Score:1)
Instead of software and new hardware, (Score:1)
interesting variables (Score:1)
Emotion reinforcement? (Score:1)
Bl for retards ? (Score:1)