wifi-images.
This project grafts audible images of an environment’s wifi-atmosphere on top of one’s visual perception of otherwise natural and neutral spaces. The timbre of each space thus reveals its relative safety in terms of the amount of networks present, their interference with each other and our subsequent vulnerability to them.
Wifi “snapshots” were taken at multiple locations with diverse densities.
An audio synthesizer was then programmed to interpret data extracted from the wifi signals (e.g., strength, security, name length) and then “play back” an audible representation of each snapshot.
The resulting audio was superimposed on top of an image of each location.
