Smile, you are on camera

This interactive video-installation Works on how we experiment and perceive the smile. Lien-Chen Wang searches the word “smile” on Google in order to collect facial expressions captured in all kind of moments. The outcome is a bunch of virtual images that have undergone an alienation process. The software used detects the spectator’s position through a camera so that everyone has to deal with a foreign smile in an impersonal and anonymous representation.  

This installation enables us to think about the mental process involved in an emotional response such as smiling. Behind these smiles

What's happening on the facade. January- febrary 2020

#ProgramaLaPlaza is a tool to create creative code projects and periodically display them on the giant LED facade of Medialab-Prado.

In this latest edition, we invite schools to participate to motivate the learning of programming and code by students. Through a software hosted on a website, they created the games and pieces of digital art that you can see in this video.