Magic Mirrors

This interactive, webcam-enabled art piece transforms your self-image into a living abstraction.

Web-based and kid-friendly, Magic Mirrors offers different modes that encourage motion, discovery, and play.

In a world where we are increasingly represented through digital images, "Magic Mirrors" invites us to reexamine the relationship between self-image and computer simulation.

Technical notes

Magic Mirrors was originally developed in Processing back in 2017.

In 2025, I created a new version by "vibe coding" it. Vibe coding is the act of chatting with an AI chat bot that writes the code for you.

If an artist has an idea, but a machine writes the code, who should take credit for the work? Does craft come into play? Is a digital artwork more meaningful if the artist hand-wrote every line? What if they just use spellcheck? Where is the line between assistance and authorship? Plenty of working artists maintain armies of interns to execute their vision, after all.

I wrote an article about myvibe coding experience from a creative perspective: What I Learned Vibe-Coding My First Project in Cursor AI.

Exhibition History

• Victoria Tech Week, Tenfold After Party, Victoria
• TechArt, Ontario Science Centre, Toronto
• DX3, Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto