The resulting project, Liminal Portraits, chronicles Laura Sackett’s investigation into the teenage world of social networks and iChatting. Inspired by her daughter’s online social life, Sackett began putting together the following series of clips.
"Ichats are uniquely narcissistic because one sees oneself talking into the 'camera'" she says, "Adolescence is a particularly transitional time in life, a time when teens are experimenting with and forming their identity. And with today’s wired kids, they have the opportunity to create virtual identities – every time they log on to a computer."
By creating remote images with teens using iChat on multiple computers, Sacketts project explores a new form of portraiture. She investigates this new form of the virtual self, which, like her adolescent subject, is liminal – and constantly changing.
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