default to public is a project dealing with the discrepancy between people’s feeling of privacy on the web and the physical world. It consists of an ongoing series of objects and interventions linking the physical world to the online world in unexpected and narrative ways to create awareness for self-exposure.
All works follow a simple, yet powerful principle: Information from the twitter network (standing for information on the web) are displayed in another public environment, the documentation of this process is fed back into the digital public sphere and the authors of the information are notified of that abduction. Two public spheres are temporarily linked, creating repercussions of communication in the digital public sphere, which seems to be regarded as less public than the physical world, although it has a far wider reach than classic media, plus it never expires or is written over.
A very simple, yet almost provocative, piece of conceptual work.
More interesting is the act of bringing the tweets to the paper. The words on tweeter were born on a medium where there is no linearity and no readers — we have users — searching for information, impacient for consumption. The paper traditionally supports a more contemplative and patient reading. Although, the format in which the paper is brought to the physical world seems to embrace the nonlinearity of the web medium, maybe all the user metaphor — as contemplative as reading a tweet in a thin strip of paper can get.
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