WiFiKu
The artist created haiku using the names of public and private wifi networks in several neighborhoods in New York City. The resulting WiFiKu showcase whimsical, strange, and enigmatic wifi network names, which paint a distinctive portrait of each neighborhood when read together.
WiFiKu is an art-technology project that personalizes the thousands of invisible WiFi Hot Spot in New York City. Art-Technologist Julian Bleecker will lead a Psychogeography event, walking the streets of New York City neighborhoods and digitally scanning for the names of personal and public WiFi Hot Spots and constructing a visual map containing the Haiku from these found names.
Buried in the airwaves is a treasure chest of whimsical names individuals have given their WiFi Hot Spots. The Haiku at the vicinity of 15th and 7th Avenue:
gina network - piss
off, my girlfriend can snowboard
jeepyland, NetHome
Haiku was chosen because its brevity and lack of rhyme captures the typically enigmatic syntax that these names, when cobbled together, form. It's traditional subject matter - Zen descriptions of location, natural phenomena, everyday occurrences - is ideal for a project seeking to add meaning to a common, location-specific, radio beacon.