{"id":8109,"date":"2024-06-06T10:21:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/immersivearts\/?p=8109"},"modified":"2025-08-14T14:54:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T14:54:32","slug":"a-heros-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/immersivearts\/a-heros-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Hero&#8217;s Return"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"621\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/immersivearts\/files\/2024\/07\/Bildschirmfoto-2024-07-30-um-11.12.14-1024x621.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/immersivearts\/files\/2024\/07\/Bildschirmfoto-2024-07-30-um-11.12.14-1024x621.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/immersivearts\/files\/2024\/07\/Bildschirmfoto-2024-07-30-um-11.12.14-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/immersivearts\/files\/2024\/07\/Bildschirmfoto-2024-07-30-um-11.12.14-768x466.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/immersivearts\/files\/2024\/07\/Bildschirmfoto-2024-07-30-um-11.12.14.png 1534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Copyright ZHdK 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The interactive installation <em>A Hero&#8217;s Return<\/em> transforms visitors&#8217; poses into a digitally generated alter ego. The creation of the character and its background is realized in real-time by artificial intelligence models. This installation prototype explores the capabilities of these models (such as Stable Diffusion) and focuses on the technical and aesthetic possibilities in combination with the performative interaction with visitors. The installation also incorporates popular film representation techniques: a virtual camera performs a circular tracking shot around the scanned visitor&#8217;s body, reminiscent of scenes from numerous action hero films.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1110015380?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Credits:<\/strong><br>Artists: Martin Fr\u00f6hlich, Stella Speziali<br>Thanks to: Ege Se\u00e7gin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The interactive installation A Hero&#8217;s Return transforms visitors&#8217; poses into a digitally generated alter ego. The creation of the character and its background is realized in real-time by artificial intelligence models. This installation prototype explores the capabilities of these models (such as Stable Diffusion) and focuses on the technical and aesthetic possibilities in combination with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/immersivearts\/a-heros-return\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hero&#8217;s Return&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6678,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576139,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","category-current"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/immersivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/immersivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/immersivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/immersivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/immersivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8109"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/immersivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8895,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/immersivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8109\/revisions\/8895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/immersivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/immersivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/immersivearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}