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A Machine for Living In: Ubiquitous Sensing to Explore the Home as a Site of Intimate Life

Published: 13 June 2019 Publication History

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A Machine for Living In is a multi-layered digital media artwork using newly available computational and sensing tools to study the home as a site of intimate life. The project has two distinct phases: the construction and inhabitation of a functional smart home system, followed by an exhibition of processed data as a multi-part digital art installation. For ACM Designing Interactive Systems / Creativity and Cognition 2019, A Machine for Living In is installed as a multi-element piece in the gallery space consisting of a sensor narrative video, overhead camera video, and digital audio. All data were originally recorded in the artist's home over a period of weeks, and here are filtered through diverse processes of machine perception. In a process of joint human-machine authorship, this system produces a complex portrait of the home: as a space of language, intimacy, bodily practice, and quotidian narrative.

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C&C '19: Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Creativity and Cognition
June 2019
745 pages
ISBN:9781450359177
DOI:10.1145/3325480
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Published: 13 June 2019

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  1. computer vision
  2. domestic space
  3. human machine cohabitation
  4. internet of things
  5. intimate life
  6. machine listening
  7. smart home

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C&C '19: Creativity and Cognition
June 23 - 26, 2019
CA, San Diego, USA

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