2018
interactive installation
CYNETART Festival, Dresden, Germany
Web-based interactive installation
Projection, web interface, smartphones, QR code system
Visitors join Nevertheless – interactive by scanning a QR code in the exhibition space. The web interface opens each participant’s front-facing camera and projects their live image at the center of a large screen, so that the face on the phone and the face on the wall appear at once. The smartphone becomes both mirror and transmitter: to look at oneself is also to be shown to everyone in the room.
Each captured face is stored in a visual grid that gradually fills and reconfigures itself, forming a memory system that continuously records and overwrites its own contents. When no one is connected, the grid plays a looping animation of morphing faces. The title names this condition. Data and digital space are built to be refreshed and rewritten, and each face is overwritten again and again; a human presence persists there nevertheless.
Visitors learn the interface through curiosity and trial, and their actions reshape the installation in real time. Presence in the room and presence in the network meet in the same image, and self-recognition becomes something shared and temporary, yet never entirely erased.
