The Brief:
Part documentary, part theater, part data collection, popularized live streamed content is based on practices of watching and being watched, access, control and gaze within both private and public spaces. Is this the metaverse?
The Digital as a Place studio will research “real” places through the interface. We will meander through nostalgic web camera stages, gamified live streams, performative Zoom mirrors, smart surveillance, generative NFT concerts, and 360 hype houses as not merely an act of internet voyeurism but to build an acute sense of critical and perceptual awareness of these digital places, the people, and infrastructures that surround it.
