Prompt for participants: Have someone point a laser pointer at the camera and then take a picture.
project statement
In his book Towards a Philosophy of Photography, the philosopher Vilém Flusser suggests that technology has a tendency to over-write human ways of understanding the world. For Flusser, the only appropriate response to this technological context is to attempt to speak back to the systems that code our ways of knowing and behaving, a game of tag in which we are only human to the extent that we can understand how to remix, respond or re-imagine the ways in which technology creates and represents the worlds we inhabit. Taking Flusser's assertion as its starting point, Laser Pointer Tag is a creativity challenge, asking participants to use camera technology against the camera itself by finding and pointing a laser beam at the camera.
