Artist and Goldsmiths student Ana Belén Alonso describes a recent Computational Studio Arts project she’s been working on:

In this first term of MFA, my goal was to get to grips with the languages of programing JAVA and C++ by doing tutorials and viewing examples that had to do with my interest in knowing more about how humans interact with technology.

The idea of this project was to create a visual instrument. This instrument works using different eye expressions so you can play all the notes of a scale and also be able to change the scale and instrument.

I used the code ofxFaceTracker to extract the blink of the eyes. After this I connected a sound to the blink movement that is captured by a camera.

In this first stage of the project you can only see in the screen the two eyes with a graphic that shows how much you blink. But the idea is to create a very simple graphic visual interface that will be like an animal mask that just shows the user’s eyes.