cringe
/krɪn(d)ʒ/
1. bend one's head and body in fear or apprehension or in a servile manner.
2. have an inward feeling of acute embarrassment or awkwardness.

About (preview)

CRINGE is a tech-art installation developed in collaboration with Hugging Face.
CRINGE captures and transforms portraits of visitors into flawless replicas, hyper-realistic doppelgängers that engage the audience in an uncanny dialogue with AI.
Prepare to CRINGE as your own deepfake smiles back at you!

“To understand AI, we should think harder about bullshit”
Alan Blackwell

Video

Credits

a project by
Matthias Oostrik
and
Linoy Tsaban
from Hugging Face
custom hardware
Diederik Schoorl
ai music
Than van Than

Specs

year
2025

type
audiovisual installation

media
48 channel video | 3 channel sound | 1 channel camera

runtime
infinite

diameter
1.8 meter

weight
365 kg

footprint W*D*H
8x8x5 meters

video portraits collected
2 (so far...)

software used
Diffusers | openGL | Python

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