Frontera v.2 (the departing point)

Frontera v.2 is an interactive video installation featuring the videobooth: a tool for the creation of interactive portraits and the playback screen for portraits presentation and interaction. Based on FLOSS, computer vision and motion tracking technologies, and with an on-growing collection of over 150 live size portraits, it constitutes a study of the relation between the contemporary subjects and their own images.

INTRODUCTION
In an age where a ruling paradigm regarding technological art is physical interactivity, it’s only natural that one of the oldest visual representation practices, that of portrayal, transforms accordingly. This fact has been acknowledged in literature and cinema, thus interactive portraits have become integrated into our image of the future. Frontera v.2, has been created within this scope of works and could represent a first approach towards realising what others have envisioned. This interactive installation consists of two main components: a videobooth and a playback screen. The videobooth serves as a tool with which spectators can create interactive selfportraits that are shown on the playback screen and react to movement as if they were dissociated mirror images. Touch and communication are key ingredients in this project for which two open source applications were developed.