Interfaz007
Interfaz 007 is a mobile device capable of scanning and intercepting signals from the spectrum known as VHF belonging as well to policing communications, wireless networks, and FM radio. The interface is deployed by walking and is navigated by searching for signals or listening either to surveilling technologies or highly interconnected local spaces. Interfaz 007 is deployed with a special suit that reflects Laser Imaging Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) confusing infrared devices such as proximity sensors, automatic sliding doors, and automatic bathroom sinks.
Interfaz 007 (I007) is a walking antenna that utilizes a receiver circuit connected to a discone antenna that is attached to a wheeled mast . I007 navigates public space looking for concentrations of signal and radiating waves, intercepting telecommunication radiation, and at the same time occupying spaces while navigating the environment in a non-linear way.
It is paradoxical to think of an antenna that moves as antennas are fixed instruments tha tune to specific waves in space and time. My intention here is to navigate with the antenna while searching for and connecting to planetary waveforms. A user may mediate on the intentionality of the walk while allowing themself to be navigated by unknown or accidental events the interface may bring. Furthermore, by relying on the performative aspects of these uncanny interfaces together with the necessary indumentarium that is required to deploy it, I am interested in the qualities this combination might bring for occupying spaces and, of course, raising these questions while being shared in the collective experience of deploying several I007s at the same time. The navigation results and the resulting cartographies are still to be discovered.
Scale is an inescapable trap, and it is only by erring and challenging the common sense behind scale that we may begin to relate to the measure of our current climate emergency in a subjective, more affective way. We must open the instruments and share them in a performative and uncanny way. We must allow ourselves to be navigated by hyperobjects and to tap into the virtual through moving interfaces and sensors that create new experiences and ways of occupying and gaining spaces, formulating the potential possibilities of a world without so many straight lines.
