eavesdripping

16 August 2005

eavesdropping.jpga physical display that uses water, or the visual effect of drops of water hitting a liquid surface, as medium & display to render invisible communication as 'sensual experiences'. currently, the installation displays contents from instant messaging chats, emails & websites traced from sniffing nearby wireless internet communications, parsed to readable text, processed for output in the form of drops & then displayed on the ground for everyone to read. see also information percolator. [pohflepp.com| via we-make-money-not-art.com]

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Another beautiful installation is bit.fall (http://sphericalrobots.universalsuperjet.de/bitfall.php), which Sascha Pohflepp mentions on his site.


I had the fortune to see it at the Fusion Festival and was thoroughly impressed.

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