All posts by Tomumaja
Ancestors, a new immersive project co-created together with Steye Hallema, combines face capturing with GAN networks. We are very happy to be part of Sundance New Frontier Story Lab line-up this year. Ancestors generates an imaginary family tree synthesized from the faces of the audience, narrating a speculative fiction about the future of human kinship and reproduction.
Keynote at LIFT Helsinki, 24th of October, Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki
Captured – Storytelling with digital doubles
Currently many apps allow people to create a virtual likeness from themselves for fun social media purposes, but can digital double became an agent in a narrative simulation? Captured explores digital doubles as actors in a collective scenario depicting social injustice.
Captured is an immersive experience, which captures your face and creates a new identity for you in a collective scenario taking place in virtual world. Captured enables people to step into virtual world as a digital double, making them actors and spectators in the same time. The doubles participate in a simulation depicting an unsettling cyclical performance of social humiliation, each taking different roles in the so-called bullying triangle, consisting the bully, the target or the bystander.
Captured at the 6th Venice Gap-Financing Market, August 29th-3rd of September
NewImages XR Financing Market, 20th of June, Paris
YLE Beta Day – 7th of May, G-livelab, Helsinki 8.30 AM – noon
Together with Amanda Solosky (Rival Theory) and Silja Martikainen (Cognitive brain research, Helsinki University)
The Volumetric Society will be presenting two pioneering artists, Hanna Haaslahti – presenting “Captured”, and Kathleen McDermott, presenting “Absurdist Electronics: The Disruptive Power of Slapstick in Wearable Tech and Consumer Robotic Design”
Wed, March 20th, 6.30 PM
Alexa Steinbruck from Storytellers United interviewed me, Alap Parikh and Tyler Henry about Captured. We discuss about narrative possibilities of realtime 3D face reconstruction – technology and collaboration across three different continents. Read the story ->