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Film, Audio, Video and Digital Art Sculpture and Installations Sheldon Brown's project for inSITE97, "Mi casa es tu casa/My House is Your House," was a networked virtual reality environment installed at the Children's Museum in San Diego and the Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico, DF. Providing an interactive space for children to play and explore, the project used innovative computer technology to connect the environments in both cities to allow children to participate in the construction of a virtual house. Both rooms were equipped with costumes and tools to build the house, and as children moved through the room, they could watch their virtual body double mirroring their actions. Brown's project imparted notions of home, nation, heritage, and cultural construction through child's play. --inSITE97 Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 309, Folder 02, Item 051) [Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. The New Children's Museum (American museum)
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image
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Costumes
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ark:/20775/bb5258996q
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Technology Virtual reality (VR) Boundaries Video art Play Houses Children's playhouses Children (people by age group) Border art Mexican-American border region InSITE97
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