About

‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. USB flash drives are embedded into walls, buildings and curbs accessible to anybody in public space. Everyone is invited 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 is installed empty except a readme.txt file explaining the project. ‘Dead Drops’ is open to participation. If you want to install a dead drop in your city/neighborhood follow the ‘how to’ instructions and submit the location and pictures.

I  am a Berlin based media artist and started  the ‘Dead Drops’ project during my stay in NYC at EYEBEAM as artist in residence, October 2010.

Aram Bartholl 2010

Dead Drops ‘How to’ video

The first 5 Dead Drops were installed by Aram Bartholl in NYC, Oct. 2010.

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296 Comments

  1. Vaval
    Posted February 11, 2011 at 3:36 am | Permalink

    La guyane will have !! yea just after the Vaval thing , french Dom Tom .
    Cause here down south Beatstormz BHP runs things !!!! Pakalawali Valien.T comes first !!!!!!

  2. squirrel
    Posted February 12, 2011 at 7:15 pm | Permalink

    Hi all,

    I just released a very first, very rough, very limited version of DeaddropDroid to the Android market, a little tool that can help you locate deaddrops from an Android phone.

    It was fun learning Java and the Android platform (both new to me); hopefully it’s of use for all you deaddroppers.

    Comments are welcome.

    Sorry no web page yet from my side; that will come sooner or later.

  3. Tony Ward
    Posted February 13, 2011 at 4:29 am | Permalink

    Isn’t this making the spread of various worms, virus’ and so on too easy for anyone that want to?

    • Tix
      Posted March 13, 2012 at 2:18 am | Permalink

      Yes it is – but it isn´t to.
      Because hacker want to hack- and build big networks – and not a lonely computer that contact to a building enywhere in the world. ;) There is no “profit”… And they´ll think this projekt is cool to! :D

  4. Phil
    Posted February 13, 2011 at 11:28 pm | Permalink

    Is this safe no viruses?

  5. onlinecourses.net
    Posted February 16, 2011 at 1:57 am | Permalink

    @Phil
    Of course there are going to be viruses. Anyone can plug in and put whatever they want onto these flash drives. Just get some good anti-virus software and use a netbook that you don’t use for anything critical.

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