rary era? How to be ‘real’ ‘’when everyone is watching?”1 Using Photo Forensic, a scientific open source program made to identify images that have been digitally modified as a creative tool, the project explores the ambiguity between aestheticization and truth. By manipulating the ‘’positive’’ picture, in order to have a visual outcome from the software, the forensic tool became an apparatus equal to the camera itself to “cast bodies,” to create identities, to establish worlds. Combining closely cropped, self-portraits with the eyes of the machine algorithm, the work questions the mediums relationship to authenticity in the digital world, claiming manipulation as quest to achieve ‘‘a true self’’.