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Light-Painting Invisible WiFi Networks

The Immaterials project maps WiFi signals using the photographic technique of light-painting.

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The Immaterials: Light-Painting WiFi project from the Oslo School of Architecture & Design maps WiFi networks in urban spaces. Exploring this invisible terrain in long-exposure photographs, it reveals a huge light-painting across 4 meters using 80 points of light. To quote the video, "The networked city is messy, informal and seamful, and will always be a part of the complex content of city life. Light painting situates the networked city in the everyday environments in which it takes place."

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