Observatorio

Observatorio
Interactive Installation
Year of production: 2008
 
With the collaboration of urban artist Escif
 
Obervatorio is a project that aims to provide a reflection on the current state of wireless networks by analyzing their status (open - closed) and questioned the political and economic interests have emerged around them. It comprises of a device located in urban space that tracks and shows the networks in real time and sends this information to the exhibition hall, where it is displayed. A modification of these networks is also offered, showing an ideal configuration in which the local residents of large areas in the city could gain or share access to it.
 

 
In a public square still to be determined, we will install the lookout device. It comprises a high power uni-directional WiFi antenna with a 30º aperture, able to detect wireless networks within several kilometres; a video surveillance camera with a telephoto lens with the same aperture as the WiFi antenna; and a viewer which, like a periscope, offers a real time image taken by the camera, with the WiFi networks detected by the antenna placed geographically on it.