Open the world after Walter Benjamin & Marcel Duchamp... That's so great !


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Subject: [Xchange] geo-location: the Straits of Gibraltar


> Tarifa_Tangiers june 22,23. 2004
> Europa-Africa 28km continental wifi link
> telematic network + social networks + urbanism
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> The event´s codename is Fadaiat, which means "through spaces" in arab.
The word Fadaiat as-well is used to define a satellite dish and space ship.
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> http://fadaiat.net/
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> After many months of preparation hackitectura and many diverse collectives
are working in the terrain: a very tense and militarized EU border. Our
location now is a medieval castle at Tarifa, in front of a detainee migrant
camp at the southest point of continental Europe. In a few hours we will try
the wifi link to Tangiers, Morocco. ITU Rabat gave us this morning the
permission.
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> More than Fadaiat as a poetic virtual bridge project, or as a symbolic
north-south freenetwork link (after Perejil island conflict and bombings in
Madrid the 11th of March)
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> ..The aim of Fadait as a no border temporary media lab is to remain as a
permament public media interface, part of the counter hegemonic cyborg* that
we imagine at the gate of mediterranean sea. Our technical research have
flown over several layers: web geointerfaces, free software (FFmpeg)
streaming servers, use of Pure Data as a distributed multimedia engine...
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> * Reverse engineering of the Surveillance System of the Straits
> http://www.guardiacivil.org/prensa/actividades/sive03/index.jsp
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> Pablo de Soto
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