Entry 8 - Life Sharing

( http://0100101110101101.org/home/life_sharing ~ New Media Art p.26 )

Life Sharing is a project by Eva and Franco Mattes where they made every file on their computer public for three years. This included private documents and emails, effectively making their identities the medium of their work. The graphical interface that was used to share all of the files was a homage to the text-based command line interface of Linux. Like Linux and other open-source software, their lives were effectively transparent. Anyone was able to examine their personal information, as anyone is able to see the workings of open-source software.

The idea of sharing one's entire computer is interesting because it the files one saves, and how they organize them tells a lot about who that person is. It tells how they organize things, and what kinds of information they think is important.