In collaboration with
Dee Kim, Brooklyn Brown

By simply installing a familiar setting of props and no apparent human presence other than the instructional video, we were able to provide an ambiguous interaction between the participants and the equipment. People were unsure if it was really taking their photo, regardless they still posed when the video began to countdown because of the familiarity of the cultural expectations of that experience. The computer was recording them the whole time, so we just took screenshots afterwards and emailed them to the people who had left their email addresses for us.