Adam Somlai-Fischer, Usman Haque, Bengt Sjölén

Wifi Camera
Interactive installation, 2006–2009
Photo-documentation: site – specific project, London, 2007

Wifi Camera is an ongoing research project initiated by Bengt Sjölén and Adam Somlai Fischer with Usman Haque (http://wificamera.propositions.org.uk).

The Wifi Camera is a camera that takes "pictures" of spaces "illuminated" by wifi in much thesame way in which a traditional camera takes pictures of spaces illuminated by visible light.The camera reveals the electromagnetic space of our electronic devices and the shadows that we create within such spaces, in particular the wifi networks that are increasingly found in our daily lives, in coffee shops, offices and homes throughout cities of the developed world. The wifi camera takes real-time "photos" of wifi, which show how our physical structures are illuminated by this particular electromagnetic phenomenon; we are even able to see the shadows that our bodies cast within such "hertzian" spaces.