Un-cloud your files in cement! ‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space.
‘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. Dead Drops was part of the show “Talk to Me” at the MoMa July-Nov 2011.
Aram Bartholl 2010
Dead Drops ‘How to’ video
The first 5 Dead Drops were installed by Aram Bartholl in NYC, Oct. 2010.
Prefer YouTube? -> youtube.com/watch?v=hwohadcUv4A
- Definition of the term Dead drop (Wikipedia)
- Initial Dead Drops preview release post (with 300++ hilarious comments!)
- 1st 5 Dead Drops NYC flickr set
DeadDrops database
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The first 5 Dead Drops were installed by Aram Bartholl in NYC, October 2010
87 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn, NY (Makerbot)
Empire Fulton Ferry Park, Brooklyn, NY (Dumbo)
235 Bowery, NY (New Museum)
Union Square, NY (Subway Station 14th St)
540 West 21st Street, NY (Eyebeam)
Dead Drops picture set on flickr
295 responses to “About”
goooood!!!!
This is my idea for a offline peer to peer network
http://datagram.tk
It is used to mail SD cards with data between users …
Add hardware on the stick that nukes any rootkits/etc automagically and removes anything with an executable file header.. SIMPLEZ.
:-)
Neat idea *2, add some sort of eject/load mechanism like a CDROM, so the usb stays in the wall behind a metal shutter until an active PC is within range.
Charge it off the attached laptop so it has a regenerative power source.
(plus with a slight modification it could allow low mobile ‘phone batteries to be recharged that way)
Gonna put one in Bonn, Germany soon :)
hello Aram,
we want to help!
we want to see the project go even higher!
what is your vision of the near future?
how can we help to improve the database and the rest?
share the problems with all of us!
let’s grow!
best,
gregol