Thursday, January 15, 2015

Artist Mary Ellen Carroll unveiled her work Public Utility 2.0 as part of “Prospect.3: Notes for Now,” an international art biennial taking place in New Orleans until January 25th. The project “aspires to nothing less than a reshaping of the policies and technology we use for wireless communication” by exploring the use of empty bandwidth dubbed by the Federal Communications Commission as Super Wi-Fi. It consists of infographics, some photographs, a historical timeline and a delicate wooden model of the elevated I-10 freeway that cuts through New Orleans. 

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