Your Gaze Completes Me
Astro Lee
Advisor: Sarah Ibrahim
Your Gaze Completes Me is an interactive screen based experience which comments on the boundaries between the ‘You’ and ‘I’, and how we expansively contribute to each other’s identity through a simple eye contact, a conversation, shared culture, and through generational heritage.

Project Description
Your Gaze Completes Me is an interactive screen based installation which reveals the Artist's Narrative once the interactor gazes upon the piece.
Commenting on the blurriness between individuals, how 'you' and 'I' take part in constructing one another continuosly, the interactive piece takes life once an individual lays eyes on the empty lifeless screen.
Technical Details
Your Gaze Completes Me is a web based screen installation which utilizes the ml5 library through a local p5.js sketch which pulls an After Effects rendered looped Video through Github.
(Using a regular web cam) The ml5 Face Mesh model was used to detect the interactor's face, and the eye points were compared to the nose point to detect whether the interactor is facing the screen or not. If the interactor is facing the screen, the video plays in a loop, and if the interactor looks away, the video slowly fades out, eventually stopping over time, until another interactor gazes upon the piece and brings back life to it.
Research/Context
The context of this project is highly relevant to the Artist's personal upbringing, culture, and how that has inspired her to connect with others and acknowledge the human eye to eye interaction.
Coming from a multi-cultural background, the Artist embeded her own experience and exploration around her cultural background into a video so that once the interactor pays attentions and looks, a glimpse of the cultural heritage is revealed.
Some of the cultural context include aboriginal instruments from her time at Australia, Korean folk songs, the sound of Korean harp, the Tae Geuk - well known as the Yin and Yang Apirit- and a poem of independence written by the Korean poet 264 (Lee Yuk Sa).
Please visit the Project website for more details.