ANDRE LIRA
Andre Lira is a Brazilian-American interactive media artist and creative technologist building audio-visual installations that spark delight.
Emoji Dancer
2025
Dually an installation for real-time manipulation of a webcam feed and additionally a platform for transforming uploaded video data.
In “The Emoji Mirror”, users can scale the resolution of the output and affect the density of emojis onscreen by opening and closing their fingers, which are tracked by Google’s MediaPipe ML Library.
Utilizes 100 emojis from the iOS18 library sorted into approximate equal groupings by color.
The real-time version of the piece (”Emoji Mirror”) developed at UNOLAB Studios in Milan, IT with technical support from Stefano Veroni, Valerio Ruggiero, and Gianluca Colia.
Built in TouchDesigner.