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With the development of technology, photographic equipment has become increasingly widespread. People can take photographs and share their statuses anytime, anywhere, and upload to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other social media sites, which has led to violations of privacy and portrait rights. In this work, a net interactive installation is used to develop a system that captures real-time images. The work comprises two forms: the first is a kinetic installation that takes and saves photos of viewers at the site, and the second invites off-site viewers to upload their own photos. Through an interactive program, faces are pixelated before being displayed on an imitation Facebook interface fan page designed by the artist, and are instantly projected onto the exhibition walls. Through this work, viewers are prompted to reflect on how their own portrait and privacy rights are being deprived, as well as being harshly judged by others in a way over which they have no control.

  The introduction of this thesis describes the background, motive, purpose, and methods of the creative research. In the second chapter, literature review is used to explore the development and characteristics of net interactive installation art, as well as the conflict of the snapshot upload phenomenon with portrait and privacy rights. Via the creative concept, the artist explores differences in image interpretation, and the complementary process of taking photographs and being photographed , and how sovereignty, portrait rights, and privacy rights gradually disappear during the uploading process. Creative elements such as the tracking shots used in kinetic installations, pixilation, the imitation Facebook projection interface, and the Facebook fan page are discussed in detail. Finally, there is a discussion of the creative approach and devices and software programs used.