2-- Wi-Fi Self Portrait at Analix Forever Gallery, Geneva (sept. 2002)
I used this system to build a kind of self portrait during the -italian boys- show at Analix Gallery in Geneva. I built a WLAN with an open node (its SSID was the name of my main web site: zanni.org). In this way people coming to the gallery with their laptops (or remaining outside in a ray of 50 meters) could join the network typing my name, my web site as password. So i set my identity, my web identity (zanni.org) as a way to link land people to the net. I became a new Caronte, allowing people to overlap between personal digital relationships and human ones. Then, following a new kind of "Alphabet" created for the first time around June 2002 by several London based graphic designer, I chalked the facade of the gallery with a sign representing that type of wireless node and others tech specs. Before doing it I participated to a forum hosted by a web called warchalking.org concerning these new symbols, introducing my up dated version of the classic sign for open nodes. I proposed to insert in the left side of it, the latitude and longitude in decimals of the point where the WLAN was set. The symbol chalked on the Analix facade had those specs.
You can find info about what i did at Analix in a lot of web sites. Just type zanni.org+analix and google will answer you.
More info on: http://www.zanni.org/pagine/menu12.htm

Press01: Read an article did by TSR Television

Press02: NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE 15-12-02 - War-Chalking By Clive Thompson, PAG. 136