This interactive video-installation Works on how we experiment and perceive the smile. Lien-Chen Wang searches the word “smile” on Google in order to collect facial expressions captured in all kind of moments. The outcome is a bunch of virtual images that have undergone an alienation process. The software used detects the spectator’s position through a camera so that everyone has to deal with a foreign smile in an impersonal and anonymous representation. This installation enables us to think about the mental process involved in an emotional response such as smiling. Behind these smiles, we find a software responsible for adjusting automatically all the images and put them together in the centre of the installation working on issues like autonomy, individualization and collective consciousness. Moreover, the utopian ideal which believes in the universal access to information makes us deal with the enormous amount of data present in our daily basis. Indeed...