Warbike

Photo: Risa Horowitz

By David McCallum

Did you know that almost anywhere that you go in a city you’ll be sharing space with someone’s private wireless computer network? All of their personal communication – email, love messages, bank passwords, credit card numbers, and bizarre surfing habits – will be passing through your body without your awareness. Who are they, and how do you feel about sharing space with their personal life?
The Warbike turns this wireless network activity into sound. As you cycle the streets, you’ll hear the activity of this invisible communications layer that permeates our public spaces. Who knew that so much was going on?

See the Warbike at Interaccess Gallery in Toronto from
September 12 - December 1, 2007 www.interaccess.org

Hear the Warbike at www.cbc.ca/spark/blog/2007/09/

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David McCallum is a musician and media artist in Toronto, and currently the Editor of Musicworks Magazine. He studied physics and music composition at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and received a Master’s in Art and Technology from Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden. [more...]