Artificial Smile by Andreas Schmelas & Stefan Stubbe, 2009
'Artificial Smile' is a camera that captures pictures of people and replace their mouths with smiling ones.
The camera 'Artificial Smile' plays with the notion of perfection and auto-retouch. Created as a picture apparatus, it shows only smiling people's picture to be taken, irrespective of their former emotional state. To achieve this camera takes a picture but overlays it with a smiling mouth drawn from a pre-existing pool of pictures with smiling faces. To generate a maximum level of exaggeration the replaced smiling mouth impression is matched as realistically as possible to that of the initial portrait taken.
-Andreas Schmelas & Stefan Stubbe-
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