"Our House" is an interactive artwork combining a physical sculpture with an online micro-blogging simulation and video display. This installation featured a row of terrace houses, each door opening to reveal tweets on a screen and a video simulation visible through the window and doorway. The piece explores evolving notions of privacy and public access, using social media to question the boundaries between private and public spaces. Through this blend of physical and digital interaction, "Our House" prompts viewers to reflect on the impact of social media on personal privacy.

• ACM Ref:Julia Burns, Alla Bekker, Ardrian Hardjono and Doreen Ee. 2009. Our house. In Proceedings of the seventh ACM conference on Creativity and cognition (C&C '09). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 421–422. https://doi.org/10.1145/1640233.1640332
• Abstract: 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 paper discusses an interactive new media artwork, "Our House" that 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.
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• Category: Prototyping, Concept, Design, Illustration, Documentation, Design and Multimedia