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Today's menu
Chicken on a monitor staring at a person.

Today's menu

Why do we kill and eat animals even though we don't need to? Why do we massively subsidize factory farming?
Today's menu is an interactive installation and investigation into animal rights in Finland. This provocative work uses computer vision and 3D modelled chicken to disrupt people's daily routines.
Placed right outside a lunch restaurant, the chicken track people's faces, staring at them as they walk into the restaurant. Visitors can also enter a tight cage to learn facts about factory farming.
year 2024
type interactive installation
methods Unity, Python, face detection, woodworking
exhibition V1 gallery, Espoo
Passerby looking at chicken.
The work reacts to people walking in and out of the restaurant.
AI face detection on computer.
Face tracking: the chicken stare into people's eyes.
A person standing inside a wooden chicken cage.
Enter the "chicken cage" to learn facts about factory farming.
Chicken footsteps on the floor.
Imagine this was your entire living space.
A painting of a chicken.