Bodily networking sensation


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Daily walks between home, work and leisure are recompiled into a “pain-map” which is fetched from GoogleMaps servers with automated scripts. The map keeps tracks of the wireless networks along the route, but also of the wearer’s détours when entering a very dense network place.The technique, which the artist calls Inverse War-Driving, challenges the discourse about locative and wearable media.

WiFI straight jacket (source: we-make-money-not-art.com)Seems painful, a straight jacket that tightens when the density of WiFi networks increases. Now you can feel the presence of invisible infrastructures surrounding your movements through the city. Funnily enough, this inverses the idea of technologies mediating social proximity: instead of media telling you someone is physically present, now you physically sense the presence of technologies.Via: Make.