Solar Powered Wireless Detector by Mark Dixon

As part of the VELOCITY Festival of DIgital Culture, artist Mark Dixon has developed a solar powered version of Network, his wireless detector artwork, as on online workshop for instructables and folly. An array of these devices were installed in the Furness & Midland Hall at Carnforth Railway Station on the 31st October 207 as part of a Halloween Film Night.

The original version was presented at Enter festival in Cambridge as a major site-specific installation for the temporary festival domes in the park. Network explores the visualisation of the wireless information that surrounds us but is rarely acknowledged. Using 3000 wireless detectors and 6000 ultra bright LEDs he created a work that visibly responded to mobile phone use in a public environment. Each day, workshop participants were actively encouraged to hack and to add to the lighting array that was visible all through the night. On the last day of the festival Network was broken down and handed out to festival goers and distributed throughout the city.

Step 1: Here's how they look en masse!

Comments

[Doneitmyself]

Does each "packet" respond to just one cell phone. Or do they all flash or respond from just one phone or different cell phone numbers?

[folly]

Thanks for your comment Apologies that this was not clear on the posting originally - I have amended it now so that Step 9 reads: folly, the Lancaster based digital arts organisation, has a limited stock of Network devices to give away for free (one per person) - to get yours send a self addressed stamped envelope to folly (Network Device), 6.4.4 Alston House, White Cross, Lancaster, LA1 4XQ, UNITED KINGDOM. Thanks! Jennifer Stoddart Programme Coordinator folly

[twisted]

cool. looks kinda awsome. Just wondering, how can i get my hands on a free network device? ~Twisted