The work involves taking video footage and audio recordings of a group of 20 individual teenagers, along with a number of parents and grandparents , exploring the on-line BEBO community and examining the snaps and language they use culminates in a multi-media installation called ‘Transition’.

The artist, Christine Webster comments:

"My own interest is in how the creation of image functions as a mask or disguise in order to place or rank teenagers in order of ‘coolness’ and what is at stake here and what they do in order to be liked or cool.

"Metaphorically people use a ‘mask’ or ‘pose’ in order to conceal or hide something. By use of a particular dress code and lingo certain essential information is revealed to fellow peers.

"The Bebo ‘chat’ explores one of the key methods for communication between teenagers; not only a leisure activity where they may spend hours at a time but one which is crucial in creating their image and identity through the use of text and images."

Using audio to interview teenagers and parents in conjunction with video and stills to capture the way in which they present themselves, this multi-media work probes the importance of image in teenagers, using teenagers from the Ayrshire coast of Scotland as its participants.