activityPixels is a site-specific installation for ITP that measures the amount of activity in the lounge and displays it as a set of two projections on the windows.
 
A camera captures a live feed of the student lounge and sends it to the computer, which performs a frame differencing algorithm to measure the amount of activity in the room. The resulting image is highly pixelized, and projected on one of the windows. The second projection is a pre-recorded video, also highly pixelized, which changes depending on the amount of activity. We see a person studying when there is hardly any movement, people walking and talking when there is little movement, and people dancing when the amount of movement is high.
 
By Elie Zananiri and Kim Thompson. 
Special thanks go out to our actors Eddie, Amanda, John, Winslow, and Matt.
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