Auto-Icon was used by exhibition invigilators as a sentry box throughout the event at Triangle Space, which is located aside the former parade ground of the Royal Army Medical College (now Chelsea College of Art and Design). The box wore the colours of the Royal Army Medical Corps insignia.

The title Auto-Icon was shared with the wooden cabinet that contains the body of Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) at University College London. Bentham, the Utilitarian philosopher who’s ideas inspired the Panopticon-shaped Millbank Penitentiary that used to occupy Millbank before the construction of the Tate Gallery and the RAMC, requested in his will that his body be displayed at the UCL. Bentham’s Auto-Icon features his skeleton wearing his clothes and a waxed head, and is kept on public display at the end of the South Cloisters in the main building of the UCL, acting as a permanent reminder of the man who’s ideals inspired the institution in which it resides.