Twenty 22 x 28" and 28 x 22" ink drawings on mylar, exploring the range of children's facial expressions. Each drawing is set in a 23 x 29 x 3 1⁄2" light box. The power cords are installed from the ceiling and draped on the floor, amongst the individual works.

James Meyer's title, The Social Machine, refers to the idea that social operations are dictated by a set of regularized, unspoken signals. Meyer plays with the idea that in being regularized, the social process and by extension, humans as social beings, are mechanized, part of a collective apparatus of interaction. Specifically, this project explores the coded system of facial configurations used to express emotion. As with the majority of Meyer’s work, he focuses on children as his subjects. In The Social Machine, Meyer's choice of subjects is particularly effective because our special concern for children makes everything they feel seem more potent.