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Click the above image to stream a two-minute clip documenting Life: A User's Manual.

"The city is a game board, where every story, every piece stands on its own, but is part of an intricate jigsaw puzzle. Both public physical spaces and private interior spaces contain traces of fragmentary personal [hi]stories tied together by an invisible network of media. How people inhabit the hidden 'image spaces', discovered by a wireless surveillance camera scanner, while at the same time inhabiting physical outdoor spaces, is revealed through the practice of walking".

Presented here as documentation of an earlier project in Chicago, two DVD players hidden about the gallery broadcast, via 2.4 Ghz wireless transmitters, edited footage captured from tours of wireless security cameras. Revealed to the viewer as they simulate Teran's tours, intimate scenes from people's personal spaces made public in the airwaves: an alley, an empty bed, a sleeping baby, a newsstand, and the resulting distortion as signals cross and interfere with each other.