Digital vs Physical Clouds

Concept = activating the doors into/out of the OG building by having to use a door handle, this action means you 'log on' to the building. Other people in your group or that are in your set of friends will know you are there.

• You inhabit the building, you wear the building when you enter, you attire yourself in it
• You leave traces of yourself on the door handle

Physical World = physical traces = skin cells, hair, sweat, finger prints, DNA. In the physical world, most of the dust in eg. your house is actually a cloud of your skin cells, your DNA, your physical trace...

Second Life = digital traces = tags such as your user name, your avatar image, your group permissions, your ownership details etc In Second Life, a cloud of digital data is associated with your presence there which contains your digital trace...

Digital clouds of tags (like a colony or ecosystem)

How to do this:

• create a particle cloud which is generated when an avatar touches the door handle and opens the door
• label the door (push, pull)
• textures for the particles will be snapshots of avatars, peices of code, text, usernames, permission groups

Reference
(p196-) Richard Coyne, The Tuning of Place. Sociable Spaces and Pervasive Digital Media. MIT Press: USA. 2010