Olga Mironova

Although digital spaces are ubiquitous and define our everyday placemaking, dwelling, and labor, we have yet to fully understand them as a dimension separate from interiority, with its own spatial conditions, vernacular, and limitations. Through incremental and often overlooked changes, digital spaces shape and transform physical spaces, whether by prioritizing flatness, surfaces, and lighting in space for webcams or by simply limiting the parts of the interior that are visible to online cameras. These negotiations between space and image, virtuality and embodiment, are critical for interior futures in the already complex and unstable sites of domesticity. As a result of the development of both hardware and software in the last 50 years, digital lenses and spaces have become invisible but omnipresent elements of both labor and dwelling. In my thesis project, I explore current and future scenarios in which the domestic interior is no longer to be lived in unobserved. In the near future, almost every room, private or public, will have been photographed or streamed and shared. images were taken from numerous angles, with the fourth wall removed.