ABSTRACT
What can be revealed about digital environments by representing them as interior public spaces? This project is a close reading of Will Fu’s experimental spatial notations that imagine Wikipedia, Instagram, Facebook, and Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) as virtual, public interiors. Considering the entanglement of technology, space, and social relations, this project theorizes the metaverse as a collection of distinct digital, interacting worlds or bubbles rather than a smooth space of consumption and entertainment. Drawing and mapping social media platforms as interior spaces creates new perspectives of them and allows us to see them as part of a larger historical process of enclosed and controlled public spaces, private dreams, and changing subject positions and roles.
