The 'Look of Love' is an installation that literally changes at the blink of an eye. As you approach a gold bar, you look through two peepholes and try to bear the gaze. With each detected blink, the image of eyes cropped from various currency changes and a new version of the song 'The Look of Love', playing in the background, begins. The unconscious act of blinking becomes an element of play, while evoking the metaphor that money changes in the blink of an eye.‘The Look of Love’ draws its inspiration from the Mutoscope of the late eighteenth century, which playing moving pictures by turning a crank. The aesthetic is a retroactive high-tech box, where you must blink. A camera located behind a two-way mirror tracks eyes as they appear in the hole. When it detects motion within the holes, it assumes that a blink has occurred. The blink detection program is written in C++ using OpenFrameworks, and the 'Look of Love' was installed at the Colors of Money exhibition at Carré Rotondes in Luxembourg from July 4 - Nov 1, 2009. More info about the exhibition.
- Designboom, July 2009.
- Fabrica, June 2009.
