| "Wi-Fi" portrait is a NewNewPortrait.
I used a Wi-Fi GateWay to build a kind of self portrait installation 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... ... more
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