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↗ F9 The Chat Booth Installation by Adrien Pezennec and Benjamin Mouly questions the consumption of self-representation when confronted by others. Chatroulette.com is a social website that defines itself as a way of meeting new people that involves your image and draws a line between real and virtual persona. We made an installation that allows the spectator to stand back from the role he plays while interacting in environments such as Chatroulette. Without being too didactic, we incite the viewer to question the way his image and persona are shown, shared and perceived through this kind of social network. By École Nationale Supérieure de la Photo­ graphie students

→ Source Five self-portraits and five markers. The public is asked to vote for a face and to sign the print. Arbitrary and without stake, each vote is a symbolic act. The visitors seize the image and become the author. Turning the portraits into unique pieces, the visitors are about to delete them. By École Nationale Supérieure de la Photo­ graphie students


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