The thesis talks about the image of searching portraits in our society. How do people get along with endless absence and death in this era? Face act as the media to connect with human and absence.

First of all, a new type of polyphonic space. The openness of Internet offers a public access for the alive and the death to speak freely. Their conversation generated in the cloud and relative information has the character of creating data automatically. Furthermore, people are reluctant to cut the relation to absentee. It causes the phenomenon of fetish and atopic alienation.

However, we can retrieve the pain by reading others’ stories, staring the faces of them in the images or experiencing the alienation. The forth chapter extends the concept of absence. Gone persons who are considered as the same absent identities as the death linger in our society. Their faces appear repeatedly on the posters from the centre of missing people on the Internet as well as government institutions. There are characters of monologue in their uncertain identities and the simulation of their faces. I try to explore the Différance in missing people’s absence of their lives with videos and documents I made.

There are five chapters in the thesis. The first one is preface and I mention three main ideas in the second chapter: faces in moving images, the unfinished characteristic of images and the alienated experience in our daily lives. And then I list some related artists to support it. In the third chapter I discuss three pieces of my work from the past and I address each one in detail. I talk about the motivation behind the new work and its background, form and medium in the fourth chapter. In the last chapter, I summarize the content in preceding chapters and offer a possibility to develop my work in the future.