private space

Suppporting the critical reappropriation of a room of one’s own -Virginia Woolf, 1929-and contextualizing in the present Net Culture, this essay questions the redefinition of the private spaces transformed into nods of relation and inmaterial work in a Web-Society. With the hypothesis of that space conforms a new public public-private scenario for the reflection and self-management of the self, this book examines the new conditions and possibilities of emancipation and subjective construction of a connected home, the consequences of the production ways and online life from the intimate spaces and the redefinition of the new productive spheres.

A Connected Room of One’s Own is an insightful essay about intimacy, about the spaces of privacy and the Internet; a book which sets out to ponder the challenges new online habits and customs pose to creativity, politics, and the management of our personal identities. It brings a broad range of disciplines to the discussion –from anthropology and sociology to philosophy and politics– certain to be of interest to researchers working in the fields of online culture, feminism and identity/cultural studies.

This paper seeks to address the discourse of the blurring of public and private space in new media art, specifically in Mouchette.org and Life Sharing by Eva and Franco Matteos. Both pieces utilize an understanding of the social systems inherent in new media art as a set of relations that require the user to complete. This system, dependant upon the relations that the user, the artist and the artwork creates a discourse on the concept of public and private space that is predicated on the notions of interactivity.

(Source: Author's abstract from ELO 2008 Conference site)

Rita Raley's presentation focuses on the use of IRC and SMS in multimedia installations, net-based projects, and street performances. Projects discussed will likely include "Listening Post" (Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin), "RE:Positioning Fear" (Rafael Lozano-Hemmer), "Urban Scrawl" (Sushma Madan and Neil Noakes), "TXTual Healing" (Paul Notzold), and "Simple Text" (Family Filter). While the chat messages used in "Listening Post" are datamined rather than solicited, the other projects are instances of user-driven media. One clear tension to explore, then, will be that between surveillance and participatory culture. Other themes and issues will include public vs. private space, locative media, and electronic English.

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(Source: Author's abstract, 2012 ELO Conference site)