The Red Carpet is an interactive installation replicating the experience of walking on a red carpet and responding to the amount of skin revealed by the user using light and sound. (jwook.com/redcarpet)   ARTISTS Jaewook Shin, Christian Bovine   Description The Red Carpet will have the look and feel of an actual read carpet but without the actual poperotzy. We are using a video camera which will detect the foreground from the background. Then inside the foreground the camera will compute the amount of pixels that represent skin color. This will provide a percentage which has a direct corallation to the number of flashes that go off and how much sound will be produced. Or the more skin the user shows more flashes and the louder the crowd will sound.   AUDIENCE General audience, anyone looking experience the looks and sounds of the red carpet.   USER SCENARIO Audiences are invited to walk on the red carpet. They will get few flash light with sound when they stand in front of the camera. They are encouraged to expose skin In order to get more flashes, the louder the crowd sound and get higher lanking at online gallery. Form people who get most attention to following other 30 people, their pictures will be on the 'The Red Capet' online gallery (http://jwook.com/redcarpet/gallery) by lank at real time.   IMPLEMENTATION Red carpet with background board. Camera, flash lights, sound effect from speakers. Computer   WORKING PROGRESS LINK Images and details of process.   HACKING CAMERA FLASH Click the images below     INSTALLATION VIEW It will be showen May 2007 at ITP.         CONTACT Jaewook Shin (j.shin@nyu.edu) Christian Bovine (cb1591@nyu.edu)