User:Mano Daniel Szollosi/Essay Outline

This trimester I am working on a thematic project what deals with a certain behaviour of the 'models' or human subjects at the moment when a camera is present, and when it's exposure button is pressed. These acts, performances for the camera itself repeat itself, and become clichés or memes in the age of the internet. There are certain phenomenons, viral activities which would not exist without a camera – such as forming bunny ears with two fingers behind the head of a relative of yours, planking, bunnying, owling, or simply posing in front of a city sight staring in the the lens.

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