Preface Admission Works Participation Artist's
		April 18 (Friday) - May 31 (Saturday), 1997 [Finished] Opera City Tower First Floor , (ICC) 4th Floor lobby
		Preface This project is a joint venture between ICC in Tokyo and the Centre National de la Photographie in Paris. Each will install a instant photo booth (one machine in each place) and connect them together through the internet. As with the usual instant photo booth, the visitor who is to have his pictu re taken sits on a stool and sees his face reflected in the mirror in front of him. But what is delivered to him a few minutes later is not his own por trait but that of another, unknown person who has followed the same procedur e in another place many miles away. The booths are installed in public places, which makes this a kind of chance communication between casual passers-by. They become momentarily involved w ith an entirely different person, though without any responsibility. It is as if one's own face, in the moment when the shutter closes, becomes that of a stranger. The booths in the system are wired with one another through the internet and the photographs pooled on discs can be output at a place which has no connection with the point where the pictures were taken. Photographs are pooled by servers, so there are no time difference problems.