The Projection of a Face (顔への映像投影)– Level 3

Let’s read aloud first. 最初に声を出して読んでみましょう。

A Japanese artist shows films on the faces of people. He found out that, showing films on symmetrical faces gave a Barbie doll effect. This made the film look false. Therefore, he preferred non symmetrical faces. All the films were inherited from traditional Japanese culture, technology and animation. In 2015, Japanese artist, Nobumichi Asai, and a team of creative developers produced a real-time face tracking and projection installation. This technology is called 3D projection-mapping. 3D projection-mapped films appeared on the surface of their skin. Glowing lines, ghoulish motifs and robotic montages are among many of the effects that adapt to the surface of skin of the model’s faces. The artist and his team were looking for funding to grow their work.

project (投影する), a set of (一組の), in a 3D form (3次元で), ghoulish motif (残忍な映像)

Questions:

  1. Where were the films projected on?
  2. Who started projecting films on faces?
  3. What did the artist prefer?
  4. What kind of film was showed on the faces?
  5. When was this project started?
  6. What is the technology called?
  7. What did the team need in order for their work to grow?
  8.  Do you think people will give the artist funding to make his work grow?
  9. Have you seen a film being shown on a face?
  10. What is your opinion?  
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