Spreading the signal
IDEA No 27
WIFI
In 1933, the most popular film was King Kong, but the most talked about was Ecstasy, a Czechoslovakian film featuring the first onscreen orgasm. Its leading lady went on to invent the technology that underpins WiFi.
‘Immaterials: Light painting WiFi’ by Timo Arnall, Jørn Knutsen and Einar Sneve Martinussen at the Oslo School of Architecture & Design explores the invisible terrain of WiFi networks by light-painting signal strength in long-exposure photographs.
Following her performance in Ecstasy, Hedy Kiestler married the arms dealer, Friedrich Mandl, the richest man in Austria. Mandl took his beautiful wife ...
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