Find Yourselfie is a collection of surrealistic augmented reality puzzles situated within and around the player’s own face. Participants twist and contort their features on camera to find hidden puzzlescapes and discover their faces anew inside them.

User-facing AR is typically deployed on platforms like Snapchat and Instagram to create amusing or attractive selfies to be shared with friends and followers. But Find Yourselfie encourages players to pull their faces in unusual and perhaps uncomfortable ways to find and solve a collection of dreamlike, interactive visual metaphors. As players put on these absurd mediated performances, Find Yourselfie surfaces how facial expressions can both indicate behavioral intent and actively influence an expresser’s emotions.

Find Yourselfie is a work in progress. Estimated completion date: 2024.