Gallery: 9 Clever Ways to Rethink the Selfie
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In Unshape, by Jules Moskovtchenko, Angélique Stehli and Sunil Vallu, a scanner captures a human's image and projects it onto a screen. Any movement is translated into glitchy visuals.
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The Selfie Project from Kévin Gouriou and Calypso Mahieu, uses simple wooden tools to take new forms of selfies. Each tool comes with a blueprint so you can make it yourself.
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Momento by Tanya Kottler and Nadine Schaub projects playful animations of wind and dust blowing onto people's shadows.
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Mask, from Jaehoon Jung and Purithat Thongphubal, allows visitors to merge their face with a moving projected image of eyes and lips.
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Clément Lambelet and Terkel Skou Steffensen's Selfeed grabs Instagram photos hashtagged with "selfie" and prints it with ink that disappears after minutes, leaving a roll of blank paper on the floor.
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Flat Face from Gianni Camporota and Nils Ferber shows an array of reflective surfaces that project a 180 degree view of a face.
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In Mixing Faces, by Zoé Aubry, Antoine Foeglé and Dong Kyun Lim, visitors stand on either side of a half-reflective, half-transparent mirror. The result is a merging of two faces like a Frankenstein portrait.
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Icon, a project by Jonas Hagenbusch, Gregory Monnerat & Jean-Vincent Simonet, asks visitors to place a physical filter on their smartphone camera lens to discover hidden content on the screen.
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Kodai Iwamoto and Marine Vallotton's Light Box project lets visitors take a self portrait from a picture of a camera.
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