Final installation by Yamaguchi Takahiro and So Kanno features a drawing machine constructing a long term portrait using computer vision reading a video opposite in the exhibition viewing space:
SDM was designed as an abstract drawing system, but artists redesigned it for representational drawing in theme of noise, error and contingency for “SDM3 - Portraits”. It drew a portrait of us two in exhibition “ICC Open Space 2015” (from 23rd May 2015 to 6th March 2016).
Since the basic design is based on the previous work, it is an incomplete mechanism as a plotter. While it sets a motif to draw concretely, it takes in systematic errors whether willing or not in the process of its heading to the icon and a contingency becomes actual. In the exhibition space a camera is set and a computer is equipped with a system to draw a portrait while watching video of two artists who are being projected. This gives the audience an opportunity to appear on the camera and adds further uncertain elements.
