HELP ME an interactive installation by Yacine Sebti (2004)	Help Me was exhibited in Brussels at: Festival Subliminal, Beursschouwburg, Jan 2005 Infiltrations Digitales, Dexia Art Center, Nov 2004
A miniature robot-car is placed in an enclosed space from which it can't escape. It follows the movements of the audience, begging visitors for help, and collecting portraits of encountered users. "Help me" is a play on imprisonment, memory, a reflection on the nature of machines and their limits. "Help Me" is an attempt to transform an inexpensive remote control electric toy car into an autonomous robot using off-the-shelf technologies. The challenges are both technical in the vision techniques for the car to recognise surrounding users and conceptual in the design of a system of behaviors responding to users' actions. Help Me was first presented at Infiltrations Digitales, Festival Maïs, Brussels, in November 2004
	SEE THE VIDEOS: at Infiltrations Digitales, at Subliminal
CREDITS Concept and development: Yacine Sebti PRODUCTION SUPPORT iMAL - interactive Media Art Lab, Brussels. Documentation: texts, pictures & video by Yves Bernard CONTACT: Yves Bernard TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS Apple G4, DFG1394 video digitiser from The ImagingSource, i-cube, remote control toy-car, microcamera and HF video link, monitors or videobeams (at Subliminal, Help Me used the waouw multiscreen system of Periactes); developped in Max/MSP+SoftVNS
From top to bottom, photos made at: Subliminal, Infiltrations Digitales Subliminal, Subliminal, Infiltrations Digitales
See other works of Yacine: Meet Somebody (installation)