Russell Pensyl
Northeastern University, USA
Biography
Russell Pensyl (MFA 88, BFA 85) is an American media artist and designer. His work maintains a strategic focus on communication, narrative, and user centric design processes for interactive and communication media. Pensyl is currently full Professor in the Department of Art+Design at Northeastern University. He held the post of Chair from 2010 till 2012. Previous post include, Director of Research and Graduate Studies at Alberta College of Art + Design, Director of the Interaction and Entertainment Research Center, Executive Vice Dean of the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, Chair of the Department of Digital Art and Design at Peking University. Pensyl’s current work includes the creation of location based entertainment several areas of technology in the application of content delivery in environmental spaces including facial recognition, positioning and localization, gesture recognition. Recently, research in the use of facial recognition technology, positioning and augmented reality annotation is resulting in commercially viable communication technologies as well as user centric, autonomously responsive systems using biometric data in interactive installations. In 2010, recent work explores the “subtle presence” autonomously responsive media in an interactive installation that presents a dynamic time lapse still-life painting that shifts subtly, caused by sensing personal characteristics of the viewer in the exhibition space. In 2011, this installation was featured in the International Sarajevo Winter Festival. In 2008 Pensyl’s mixed reality installation “The Long Bar” was a Curator Invited Installation into the SIGGRAPH Asia Synthesis – Curated Show/Art Gallery in Singapore. His exhibition credits include international exhibitions in China, USA, Japan, and Europe
Abstract
Abstract : Facial Recognition and Emotion Detection in Environmental Installation and Social Media Applications