Digital artist Kyle McDonald has a new project (Wired.com is a great source for new media art, I'm discovering!) involving two mirrors place in different galleries. Each is a digital mirror, scans your facial expression and the tilt of your head, and replaces it with a picture of someone else with the same expression and posture from a database of pictures of people that have stood in front of the mirrors. It's an attempt to bring to real life the thought that someone, somewhere is making the same expression as you right then. And if I'm understanding correctly, the two digital mirrors share the database, so there's a strong chance you'll be seeing the face of someone that stood in front of the other.
The kicker in all this is where the two mirrors are placed: one is in Japan, the other Korea.
As the video below points out, these two countries have had a complicated relationship with each other. Perhaps this project is an attempt to help the populations of the two countries feel a little closer together.
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