Wireless-Fidelity - 2014

Wireless-Fidelity from Wesley Goatley on Vimeo.

Wireless-Fidelity invites you to take a new data sonification device to the streets and hear the invisible network infrastructure that permeates the city.

Wireless-Fidelity presents a new method for the ‘aestheticisation of experience’ by sounding the network infrastructure of the modern city, while highlighting the political influences within it. Built from a Raspberry Pi computer and programmed using Linux and PureData, the device sonifies surrounding wireless networks by identifying their corporate operators and uses this data to create and evolve a generative sound composition. Sounds flit in and out of the listener’s range as they walk through the city, or develop into ever-evolving compositions when still. The listener’s route maps the invisible topology of the corporate-dominated network, whose political and ideological decisions define our rights and access to the internet itself.

For the Brighton Digital Festival, visitors will be able to take Wireless-Fidelity devices out of the gallery on short loans to explore the invisible network underpinning the city around them.  The listener’s walk will arrange a generative sound composition, created by both their route through the city and the corporate identities present in the network around them.

Opening Night: 8pm 18th September.

Open 11am-5pm 19th-21st September

Dorset Place Gallery
1 Dorset Place
Edward Street
Brighton
Hove
BN2 1ST