As part of my Masters in Arts Computing at Goldsmiths College, London in 2004/05, I developed an application which utilized a TV capture card to overlay in real-time subtitles of other media or doodled moustaches and glasses over the faces of people who appeared on TV, thereby subverting the meaning of the pictures and so interrupting the expectations of the spectator for a medium that is taken so much for granted. The system utilized the openCV computer vision library to automatically detect the people's faces that appeared on TV. The application was shown as part of the .node London Digital Arts Festival in March 2006.
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Screenshots of the configuration suite for the application in which the user is able to draw the doodles which will appear automatically on the people's faces that appear on TV in real-time
Screenshot from ‘And they say there is nothing good on TV’, a series of silly doodles of moustaches and glasses drawn automatically on the people's faces that appear on TV in real-time
Screenshot taken from "Subtitled", the subtitles from the film, The Passion of Christ directed by Mel Gibson are displayed automatically on the screen so subverting the meaning of the images that appear on the screen
Screenshots of "Ode to Mary Whitehouse", transparent digital images overlaid over television picture
Screenshot from “I’m also dreaming of a White Christmas” after Richard Hamilton, transparent digital image overlaid over out-of-tune analog television picture
