After whole day internet browsing, I found this project. Unfortunately it’s not about mobile phone, but inspiring me so much!! A creative and fun way to participate and intervent!
‘Dead Drops’ is a project initiated by the german media artist Aram Bartholl during his artist in residence at EYEBEAM in New York City, October 2010. ‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. USB flash drives are embedded into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space. It invites to everyone to drop or find files on a dead drop. Plug your laptop to a wall, house or pole to share your favorite files and data. Each dead drop is installed empty except a readme.txt file explaining the project. Also ‘Dead Drops’ is open to participation.
For me, it is really interesting how a object, USB, which is designed to be mobile transformed to a stable device, also a platform for sharing infos; how people participate to build this DD network and how quickly it widely spread around the world (So far, there are 714 usb-drops and 2131GB usb-storage been sharing worldwide.)
we could try one in the school!
to be continue….
- Posted in Participation
- 3 Comments
-
![07[1]](http://www.designandenvironment.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/071.jpg "07[1]")
3 Comments
This blog is not finished yet, but welcome for commons!!
Hey! I first encountered this project at about 8 months ago and there were discussions about viruses and what exactly you should store there
I wonder at what stage is it no and what is human experience in using this usb-stick
Hey yifan!
Interesting project you got there :) but yea..i was wondering the same thing as Inessa, because viruses can spread from any external usb drive rapidly which can cause problems..just wondering if it will be safe to use.