A web tool for reflecting about the COVID-19 pandemic through performing gestures captured as silhouettes.
Tools used: BodyPix, OpenCV, LowDB, Glitch.com
Live demo: https://glitch.com/~bodypix-covid-grief
During the COVID-19 pandemic, we find ourselves experiencing a period of profound collective grief. Grief hurts. One way we can process, heal, and/or cope in this moment of grief is by listening to our own hurt, and listening to the hurt of others in solidarity. Through the invitation of anonymously performing our felt experience with gesture for a webcam, this piece aims to create a lens for observation of our felt experience during the pandemic, one that opens up space for participation and solidarity. It is built with browser tools (Ml5.js, BodyPix) to make this lens of observation as widely accessible as possible. 