Cellphone Disco

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Cell Phone Disco is an experimental installation that visualizes electro-magnetic field of an active mobile phone. It incorporates several thousand flashing cells which were initially produced as a fashion accessory for a cell phone.

These flashing cells consist of a sensor that detects electromagnetic (EM) radiation in the spectrum of GSM cellular network, a LED and a battery. When the sensor detects EM waves it sets off the LED to flash for a couple of seconds. We took this of-the-shelf technology and slightly altered it in order to achieve a good level of sensitivity. By its multiplication we generated a surface that makes a property of the environment, usually hidden from our senses, perceptible.

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[Auke Touwslager]

Thx, glad you liked it!