A program listening to signals from surrounding devices, constructing short poems from their words.
Our devices are extremely sociable and - when they are not connected to a wifi network - very loud. Then, they constantly shout out the names of their past partners, the networks they have been connected to before, in the hope to reunite:
"I have been connected to Starbucks Wifi, are you anywhere out there? I have also been connected to nyuguest, are you anywhere out there? I have also..."
Not only is that a very private and sensitive kind of information about their user (a list of network names can say a lot about a person), but - in my opionion - it is also a very poetic one.
Air Poems is a program that listens to the devices in the surrounding and forms poems using their words in real time - poems 100% extracted from air.
##What next?
I hope to install Air Poems as a public installation that continues to output poems constructed from the information of passers-by. Poems could then be displayed on a screen or pushed to a tumblr or twitter feed.
Read some examples below.
##About the Code
coming soon...
##Examples
New Air Poem - 160323221
Brookfield Place
GA-Guest UCS Public Internet LookMomNoWires chaos2 Ifonlywifiwasfreeforeveryone
brookfield
guest internet wires chaos forever
extracted from air,
Wednesday, March 23 2016, 19:22:38
New Air Poem - 16032481
Marriott_CONFERENCE
fbguest LovelyBunchOfCoconuts maxspot Apple Eng
conference
guest coconuts spot apple
extracted from air,
Thursday, March 24 2016, 18:17:35
New Air Poem - 160324115
Tropical_Guest_Access Inversiones Ceilan 610WIRELESS radisson_ambassador
tropical inversion wireless ambassador
extracted from air,
Thursday, March 24 2016, 18:32:42
New Air Poem - 160324155
HOTELVERNET
.CIPRIANI WiFi Linksys00546 USHG-wap
hotel
ian links us
extracted from air,
Thursday, March 24 2016, 18:44:07
New Air Poem - 160323202
Dinosaur_5Ghz WeWork Dinosaur
dinosaur work dinosaur
extracted from air,
Wednesday, March 23 2016, 19:16:23
New Air Poem - 160324160
NYPL
Oreo-guest MountSinaiGuest Samsung Galaxy S 4 3390
ny
guest mounts galaxy
extracted from air,
Thursday, March 24 2016, 18:45:13
New Air Poem - 160324168
WCMCGuest ashestoashes samsung galaxy II_3125
guest ashes galaxy
extracted from air,
Thursday, March 24 2016, 18:46:55
New Air Poem - 160323203
FRBNY
Resort-Cosmopolitan LucyAndTeddy BROADCAST RubyTiger
ny
cosmopolitan teddy broadcast tiger
extracted from air,
Wednesday, March 23 2016, 19:16:59
New Air Poem - 160323234
Crazy bean too_guest dolphinVerizon1 FourSeasons maxspot Caf� Muffins
crazy dolphin seasons muffins
extracted from air,
Wednesday, March 23 2016, 19:26:01
New Air Poem:
AHS PUBLIC Royaldragon6 Butters ambassador
public dragon butters ambassador
extracted from air,
Wednesday, March 23 2016, 10:30:37
##Process
a screenshot of an result at early stage of the built
me "collecting poems" at grand central, nyc
##Thanks
Thanks to my amazing teachers:
Allison Parrish, Surya Mattu, Kyle McDonald and Lauren McCarthy.