community phone booth

Community Phone Booths.

Community Phone Booth, with Signal Strength app.

Community Phone Booth (installation view).

2012

A free phone for a local, offline community. The Community Phone Booth offers a way to connect to the Signal Strength network for users who do not have cell phones or custom routers. Phone booths are installed in public spaces and are wireless nodes on the peer to peer network.

Sponsors: The Flock House Project

Exhibitions:

• (NO) FUN, at Empirical Nonsense, NYC, February 1-March 23, 2019.
• Pratt Institute Digital Arts and Animation Faculty Show, at Pratt Institute DDA Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, August 27-September 21st, 2018.
• Radical Networks, with Eyebeam at NYU Poly, Brooklyn, NY, October 24-25, 2015.
• PRISM Break-up, at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, NYC, October 4-12, 2013.
• SIGGRAPH 2012, Los Angeles Convention Center, August 5-9, 2012.
• Flock House, at DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY, July 10-14, 2012.
• Wiki World's Fair, Governor's Island, July 7, 2012.
• Activist Technology Demo Day, with Eyebeam and The Public School NY, January 28th, 2012.

Press:

• "(NO) FUN- 3D tour of the exhibition" in Artland, March 2019.
• "Can mesh networks and offline wireless move from protest tools to news?" in NiemanLab, Nov. 10, 2014.
• "Amelia Marzec, Artist." Les Femmes Folles, June 2014.
• "Undergrowth," on Radiohive, April 23, 2013.
• "Artists, Environmentalists and Engineers Bring 'The Flock House Project' To New York City," in The Huffington Post, July 13, 2012