Lyudmila Fridman
danza_diaframmi
Interactive installation (PyCharm, Google Colab, Midjourney, Kling AI, Max/MSP, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro, Cubase, Resolume Arena)
2025
An interactive artistic space in which projected images and sound equipment react to viewers’ emotions. The central component of the work is a system that uses special algorithms to identify smiles on visitors’ faces and responds by triggering changes in the audiovisual environment. As a result, viewers participate in the creation of the work as their emotions directly affect what is going on around them.
The project investigates what effect a shared experience of positive emotions can have on people. The idea originates in neuroscientific research which indicates that a collective display of positive emotions can cause people’s neurons — the brain cells responsible for transmitting information — to synchronize. This synchronization creates a feeling of unity and intuitive mutual understanding, strengthening social bonds.
On a societal level, shared emotional experience helps people better understand one another and overcome social barriers. As a result, the installation demonstrates how modern technologies can bring people together and strengthen their sense of community through the experiencing of shared emotions. The project’s name is the Italian for “Dance of the Diaphragm”, reflecting the infectiousness of emotion, as smiles initiate a chain reaction ending in laughter, both as a personal and a social experience.
Special thanks to Aleksandr Fridman, Ruslan Bobko, Ivan Preston and Anton Volkov (Laboratoria Metalla) for their support in creating this project
danza_diaframmi
Interactive installation (PyCharm, Google Colab, Midjourney, Kling AI, Max/MSP, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro, Cubase, Resolume Arena)
2025
An interactive artistic space in which projected images and sound equipment react to viewers’ emotions. The central component of the work is a system that uses special algorithms to identify smiles on visitors’ faces and responds by triggering changes in the audiovisual environment. As a result, viewers participate in the creation of the work as their emotions directly affect what is going on around them.
The project investigates what effect a shared experience of positive emotions can have on people. The idea originates in neuroscientific research which indicates that a collective display of positive emotions can cause people’s neurons — the brain cells responsible for transmitting information — to synchronize. This synchronization creates a feeling of unity and intuitive mutual understanding, strengthening social bonds.
On a societal level, shared emotional experience helps people better understand one another and overcome social barriers. As a result, the installation demonstrates how modern technologies can bring people together and strengthen their sense of community through the experiencing of shared emotions. The project’s name is the Italian for “Dance of the Diaphragm”, reflecting the infectiousness of emotion, as smiles initiate a chain reaction ending in laughter, both as a personal and a social experience.
Special thanks to Aleksandr Fridman, Ruslan Bobko, Ivan Preston and Anton Volkov (Laboratoria Metalla) for their support in creating this project