‘Dead Drops’ is a new project from Aram Bartholl (a NYC EYEBEAM artist in residence).
“‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. I am ‘injecting’ USB flash drives into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space. You are invited to go to these places (so far 5 in NYC) to drop or find files on a dead drop. Plug your laptop to a wall, house or pole to share your favorite files and data. Each dead drop contains a readme.txt file explaining the project. ‘Dead Drops’ is still in progress, to be continued here and in more cities.”
Awesome-o. But will they just be filled up with porn and songs from Halcyon Digest? Probably. Still cool.
