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STARTS is an initiative of the European Commission to foster alliances of technology and artistic practice. As part of this initiative, the STARTS residencies foster pioneering collaborations and the STARTS Prize honors the most inspired results in the field of creativity and innovation at the crossings of science and technology with the arts. STARTS is funded through various schemes provided by the European Commission.
Face Lab
Hakan Lidbo
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A series of projects exploring the outer limits of how we use our face as an interpreter of our environment—or for the surroundings to find out what is going on in our minds.
A face analyzing a person's emotions, pixelating your real face in real life, bringing your digital avatar
into the physical world, becoming a musical instrument, a hat that helps you keep 1,5 meter distance to others—or faces that block human senses and replace them with non-human super senses.
A face analyzing a person's emotions, pixelating your real face in real life, bringing your digital avatar
into the physical world, becoming a musical instrument, a hat that helps you keep 1,5 meter distance to others—or faces that block human senses and replace them with non-human super senses.
Face projects by Håkan Lidbo, assisted by Simone Giertz, Farzaneh Farkish, Tiziano Leonardi, Sven
Olsson, Magnus Frenning, and Mikael Sjosten.
Olsson, Magnus Frenning, and Mikael Sjosten.
Håkan Lidbo (SE) Following a career in electronic music with more than 350 records released, Hakan Lidbo explores new ideas within interactive art, music, robotics, games, urban planning, and design fiction. He is also the founder of Rumtiden Idea Lab in Stockholm Sweden.