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

Holy Shit

[incest]

How are they going to know I want to see hardcore erotica featuring members of all four Star Trek shows in zero-G sex? If they can make this work, I'll order a dozen!

Re:Holy Shit

[kfg]

If they can make this work, I'll order a dozen!

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

[Anonymous Coward]

Then again, a proper image analyzer could interpret hair, hygiene, degree of obesity and presence vs. lack of an "alt.wesley.crusher.die.die.die" shirt, and draw the appropriate conclusions.

Re:Holy Shit

[marcello_dl]

The other problem is that I and possibly other people prefer hard-wired art, you know, the good ol' idea of art provoking emotions, not responding to them.

Re:Holy Shit

[kfg]

What an increadibly early twenty first century point of view.

This is two thousand and six, man. Get with the times.

KFG

Re:Holy Shit

[marcello_dl]

The distinction between "art" and "the latest way to use technology to impress people" is the problem. I dont really imply art cant be made that way, just as a circus number can indeed be art. But the problem is that most circus numbers are not art, it is a discovery to the extreme of human and animal capabilities.

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

Well?

[curebox]

From TFA:

"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

[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.

my first thought:

[Anonymous Coward]

wtf is EA going to do?

Re:my first thought:

[BoberFett]

At first glance, I thought maybe they'd make games that don't suck.

Re:my first thought:

[stunt_penguin]

Release a sequel with better graphics but shitty gameplay and an incoherent plot.

Great

[Spacejock]

So when I'm down and want cheering up, they show me depressing pictures. Fantastic.

When a retro-sucks gamer looks at it

[noidentity]

When this next-gen gamer looks at it, it immediately changes to a 3D-rendered image with all the latest effects.

Re:No doubt it is electronic,

[tverbeek]

If every piece about which someone once said "that's not art" were removed from the art museums of the world, it would leave acres of empty walls. Pop art, environmental art, de Stijl, Expressionist, Fauve, Impressionist, Surreal, Dada, Cubist... were all dismissed as "not art". And many of the great classic works were done in styles or with techniques that were - at first - dismissed as "bad art". I don't go quite so far as the folks who claim that anything the artist declares to be art is art, but the flip side of the coin, simply saying that something isn't art doesn't make that so, either.

Goth Art?

[DSW-128]

Until some goth walks up to it, and it just goes completely blank. (or explodes)