With increasing ease of reforming one's physical figure due to medical advancements in plastic surgery, we are all becoming more modular bodies. FaceBank is a commentary on the advancements in technology that allow the augmentation of the senses and the amplification of beauty. What if getting ready in the morning consisted of choosing what identity and face you want to assume that day? Every time a viewer is present, they passively donate their faces to the FaceBank. At the same time, their own faces are replaced by the previous viewer’s face. FaceBank thus makes the act of looking in a mirror analogous to applying a mask. By extracting the faces of the viewers, FaceBank challenges the notion of face, identity and expression.

Background
Kyle MacDonald made a library called ofxFaceTracker that finds the vertices of polygonal shapes that comprise a face. We appropriated this library for the implementation of our project.

Audience
children, adults, rich, poor, everyone! (because everyone has a secret fascination with their own ace)

User Scenario
A user approaches from afar, and sees something compelling occuring on screen - as the user comes closer, he sees his face growing and then shrinking, and then realizes that his own face has been saved to a database, yet he is wearing a mask of someone else!

Implementation
Screenbased work

Conclusion
that people love seeing themselves but are creeped out a bit.