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  • aesthetics
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    • Display
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        • BOOM (Binocular Omni-Orientation Monitor)
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        • Headphones
        • HMD (Head-mounted Display)
        • holography
        • laser
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        • lightbox
        • plasma
        • printer
        • projection screen
        • projector
        • robotic
        • speakers
        • VFD (Vacuum Florescent Display)
        • VRD (Virtual Retinal Display)
      • Non-electronic displays
        • body
        • Book
        • easel painting
        • globe
        • house wall
        • inflatable structure
        • mirror
        • paper
        • sculpture
        • shutter glasses
        • sofa
        • Somatosensory System / Tactile Feedback Technology
        • table
    • Hardware
      • camera
      • computer mouse
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      • Joystick
      • MAC
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      • plotter
      • scanner
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      • Video
      • webcam
    • Interface
      • Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC)
      • Biological Sensor
      • biometrics
      • Body sensor
        • Body Tracking
        • brainwave sensor/brain-computer-interface
        • breathing sensor
        • Breathing-Balance-Interface-Vest
        • Endoscope
        • eye scanner
        • facial recognition system
        • Motion Capture
        • positiontracker
        • retina scanner
        • Speech Recognition
        • step sensor
      • camera recording
      • electromagnetism
      • interactive media
        • Auditory User Interface (AUI)
        • Augmented Reality Interfaces
        • breath based communication
        • Internet of Things (IoT)
        • Ludic Interface
        • MR-based (Mixed Reality) Interaction
        • Multi-Modal Interaction
        • tactile user interfaces
        • Tangible Acoustic Interface
        • Tangible User Interface (TUI)
        • Voice User interface
      • Non-electronic interface
        • bike
        • doll
        • furniture
        • plant
      • robotic interfaces
      • Soundgenerating device
        • Audiotape
        • keyboard
        • microphone
        • musical instrument
        • RFID (Radio-frequency Identification)
        • syntheziser
        • telephone
        • Theremin
        • turntable
        • voice analysis
      • virtual balance
    • Software
      • C++
      • CGI/Perl
      • CSS
      • Global Positioning System (GPS)
      • ISDN
      • Java
      • Linux
      • Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
      • periscope
      • PHP
      • RFID (Radio-frequency Identification)
      • SGI Onyx2
      • softimage
      • software interface
      • Video
      • VRML
      • Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)
      • XML
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Information
Cite
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Archive of Digital Art (ADA). “Karl Sims - »Liquid Selves«”. https://digitalartarchive.at/database/general/work/liquid-selves.html (retrieved 2016-01-07). @online{ADAartistprofile, author = {Archive of Digital Art (ADA)}, title = {Karl Sims - »Liquid Selves«}, url = {https://digitalartarchive.at/database/general/work/liquid-selves.html}, urldate = {retrieved 2016-01-07}
Technology
Hardware
Connection Machine CM-2
Descriptions & Essays
This piece depicts the upcoming struggle between the virtual and physical sides of our selves. As technology brings us the age of virtual worlds, our existence as individuals becomes less and less dependent on our physical being. Our virtual identities become more powerful and flexible, but also unstable and difficult to define. Our consistent recognizable faces are left behind and all faces become masks. The ability to drink from and contribute to the global information pool is greatly enhanced, and this will affect the course of civilization, but the effective destruction of our bodies is a possible consequence. A collection of techniques were used to produce this animation. Particle systems were used to disassemble and reconstruct various images. Artificial evolution and interpolation of 3D parametric shapes allowed the creation of unusual surface transformations. Morphing techniques produced smooth transitions between faces, and various image processing, warping, and compositing techniques were also employed. Karl Sims
Literature
Sims, Karl. »Interactive Evolution of Equations for Procedural Models.« The Visual Computer - International Journal of Computer Graphics (August 1993): 466-476.