'Chameleon' is an interactive video installation that explores the subject of emotional contagion between groups and individuals and it stems from Tina Gonsalves's continuing fascination with human emotion, intimacy and vulnerability.

The project investigates emotional contagion, highlighting how we innately and continuously synchronise with the facial expressions, voices and postures of others by unconsciously infecting each other with our emotions. In 'Chameleon', individuals become intimately connected and implicated into varying emotional provocative and reflexive social interactions. The work uses face-reading technology, video and emotional algorithms to assess and respond to the emotional states of the audience. For the audience, the piece reveals the delicate nature of how our emotional state constantly shifts how we make sense of our external and internal world.

For the artist, the project conceptually emphasises how art experiences can allow participants a conduit to explore their own vulnerability, and in doing so, reveal and share emotions, creating more intimate interactions.

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