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THE EYE

YEAR
2026
STATUS
ACTIVE
DISCIPLINE
MOTION-TRACKING INSTALLATION
ENGINE
WEBGL / GLSL / ML5
06 / 12

01 / CONCEPT

THE SYSTEMWATCHESBACK.

THE OBJECTSTAYS STILL.

A giant generative eye that stays fixed in space while its iris follows the human observer. The system reverses the usual interaction: the interface appears to be watching back.

The Eye is built around a deliberate contradiction: the eyeball itself remains completely fixed, but the iris continuously reorients toward the tracked visitor. A MoveNet BodyPose pipeline supplies the head target, while the eye material is generated live in code, with no texture images used. The shader includes an iris with radial filament structure, a responsive pupil and a sclera with vein-like detail. Coordinate-based color keeps the iris alive without turning the object into a conventional blue or brown eye.

  • P5.JS
  • ML5.JS
  • BODYPOSE
  • MOVENET
  • WEBGL
  • GLSL