We often think of cameras as devices that are commanded by the photographer, but they’ve been slowly moving further and further away from that definition. Most if not all of the students in the class grew up around cameras that had auto-focus and auto-aperture/exposure capabilities. But now that cameras can press the shutter (or the digital equivalent) on their own, we begin to question the role of authorship over the photograph. At this point, I don’t think we need to be asking that question yet. There is still an authorship role present in the use of these cameras: they still need to be placed somewhere, and then the resulting photographs need to be curated. While the actual photo taking is mindless for the photographer, there is still a substantial amount of agency and consideration present in the act of setting up the camera and selecting the resulting photographs. Because of this, and I think this also can be extended for most automated art, the user of a Clip camera or any other camera that takes its own photos still has a role of authorship over the resulting art. That role may be different than it was in the past, but it has yet to vanish.