This work is an ongoing project, versions of which have been installed to date at the Korean Cultural Center in Los Angeles and the Santa Monica Museum of art. Over time, the selection of the "mapped" images is becoming a more complex interaction with site and situation. I am developing methods for using captured images as chunks in larger live feeds from the specific site of the work.

Yong Soon Min writes:

"Steve Appleton has created an interactive computer projection installation that revels in a dazzling display of faces. Using video technology for capturing images in tandem with pattern matching and recognition programs, faces of viewers are captured, ordered and sorted. Viewers engaged in the act of looking at a work placed on a wall become themselves subject to and a a subject of the work, thanks to a hidden camera. These "captured" faces are then processed through a complex aforementioned program that the artist himself developed, and finally projected onto a screen in a colorful grid pattern. There is an implication of facial categorization here but one which is determined with apparent "innocence" by each face match to the 256 grayscale tones. This work is an experiment in surveillance which raises concerns about the ethics of developing technological applications that produce a semblance of social engineering"

see: Neural Online