Electronic Art Changes to Suit Mood of Viewer

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."

Comments

Measure and control

[Anonymous Coward]

Is anyone else concerned that we're building ourselves into badly tuned measure and control feedback loops? Hardware that reacts to its owner's feelings will influence the emotional state based on that same state for input. Oscillation might become a problem. Alternatively we could lock ourselves into one state through reinforcement from our reactive art.

Re:Measure and control

[kfg]

Is anyone else concerned that we're building ourselves into badly tuned measure and control feedback loops?

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

Old News

[cswinter]

The idea for this is hardly new, I am pretty sure this was in a late 90's film called Antitrust with Ryan Phillippe. The Bill Gates stylee character had such a system in his house, I think it showed Heironymous Bosch paintings whenever he entered the room.

How about the other way around

[houghi]

Art that changes the mood of the viewer. Now it will likely only enforce the mood of the viewer. e.g. if depressed, you get more depressed.

Hollywood knows since a long time that music can change our mood. I also did the test myself. When driving with 'calm' music, my driving style is easygoing. When I listen to more agressive music, I drive also more agressive and faster.

Also it is known that certain colours can change your mood. So it should not be that hard to make mood-altering art and if possible in a positive way, not like fox-news does it and brings you in a state of fear.