Julia Burns

Accepted concepts of privacy and public access to the private sphere are shifting dramatically in the face of technological and cultural changes online. [Rosen 2000] Social-networking and micro-blogging sites, in particular, invite users to publish excerpts and photos from their own private lives for an internet-based viewing public. This interactive new media artwork addresses these issues and demonstrates aspects of this phenomenon in both the real and internet-based spheres. The artwork features an interactive sculpture, paired with an on-line micro-blogging simulation. Interactions with the sculpture generate tweets (text-based posts of up to 140 characters) and video on the screen-based simulation. The proximity of the real and the virtual worlds come together, prompting debate on the psychological and dangerous aspects of indiscriminate publishing to the web.