Crowd Walk (2019)
Interdisciplinary performance with artist Lang Lee at Ilmin Museum of Art — real-time emotion recognition via face and EEG.
Year: 2019. Venue: Ilmin Museum of Art (일민미술관), Seoul, Republic of Korea. Collaborator: Artist Lang Lee (이랑). My role: Real-time emotion recognition system (facial expression + EEG).
Concept
A crowd of participants walked through a designed space while a real-time system inferred their emotional states from facial expression and EEG signals. The output drove the performance environment, creating a feedback loop between embodied experience and machine perception of affect.
Notes
This was the first project where I used neural and behavioral signals not to test a hypothesis but to generate an aesthetic experience. It shaped how I think about emotion-recognition systems — the failures (mistaking confusion for fear, suppressing subtle expressions) became artistically interesting rather than just engineering bugs.
