Participant sees words in chaos on screen. The objective is to make the chaos stop by moving in space. As the participant proceeds there is a voice of computer that gives instructions. Computer follows the movements of participant(s) and makes a verbal analysis of their movement. This verbalisation is automatically produced as a web page and published in internet. To browse the verbalisations generated by the participants

ifxs/public creative surveillance

automatic body language translator

check out the Quicktime movie about the installation!

Installation at Internet.Galaxis Budapest, Hungary 26.2.-4.3.98

sales talk:

magyarul/in hungarian

suomeksi/ in finnish

Sometimes you hear people complain
face to face communication
is getting more and more rare when working with computers. More emails and web pages instead of
real life human contact.
What is missing in networked communication? Unless you are using media that transmits the image and/or sound the
non-verbal communication
is missing. But sending moving image through network requires
a lot of bandwidth.
So why not translate and compress the nonverbal aspect of communication into something less bandwidth demanding? IFXS body talk interpreter does just that. It is based on an
extremely effective compression
method of the
nonverbal messages.
Just step in front of a video camera and make some movements and your deepest nonverbal and unconscious messages are translated into ordinary language. The message is also automatically published as a web page.

To browse the nonverbal to verbal translations

Some of the messages contain name.space links. If they do not work configure yourself with name.space.

Step by step quide for the installation visitors