As part of the VELOCITY Festival of DIgital Culture, artist Mark Dixon has developed a solar powered version of Network, his wireless detector artwork, as on online workshop for instructables and folly. An array of these devices were installed in the Furness & Midland Hall at Carnforth Railway Station on the 31st October 207 as part of a Halloween Film Night.
The original version was presented at Enter festival in Cambridge as a major site-specific installation for the temporary festival domes in the park. Network explores the visualisation of the wireless information that surrounds us but is rarely acknowledged. Using 3000 wireless detectors and 6000 ultra bright LEDs he created a work that visibly responded to mobile phone use in a public environment. Each day, workshop participants were actively encouraged to hack and to add to the lighting array that was visible all through the night. On the last day of the festival Network was broken down and handed out to festival goers and distributed throughout the city.
from http://www.instructables.com/id/Solar-Powered-Wireless-Detector-by-Mark-DIxon/
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