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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolverine GTR" data-source="post: 19722328" data-attributes="member: 158020">-Hidden Wi-Fi Router That Needs Fire to Turn On- On a small clearing in the woods, on the grounds of the Springhornhof,  a museum of site-specific outdoor sculpture, in Neuenkirchen, Germany,  lies an inconspicuous-looking boulder. There are no signs on the stone  or plaques nearby to draw your attention, but you may notice that one  end of the rock is covered in black soot. Someone has been trying to  light it on fire. But why?   The 1.5-ton boulder is actually a work  of art called “Keepalive” by Aram Bartholl. It’s a real boulder,  alright, but modified to hide a Wi-Fi router inside that is powered by a  thermoelectric generator which converts heat directly into electricity. Visitors are invited to make a fire next to the boulder to power up the  router in the stone. Once the router is up and transmitting, visitors  can connect to it with their smartphone and browse or download a  collection of PDF survival guides ranging from the useless to the  bizarre.   <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sMckeAYH7wc/Vr7OcQMfyoI/AAAAAAABLqQ/kHYoMri3E2I/keepalive-aram-bartholl-36.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Among  the files offered for download include titles such as “A to Z Dating  Guide”, “Boy Basics 101: A Survival Guide for Parenting Male Tweens”,  “Do it yourself Divorce Guide”, “Drone Survival Guide” and “A steampunk  guide to sex” — the kind you normally find in any illegally amassed  ebook collection that’s available on file sharing sites on the internet.  In defense of the artist, it’s possible many of these have been  uploaded by the visitors rather than by the artist himself, since it’s  possible to do that.   <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uNEQ_eryBmo/Vr7OddeJHsI/AAAAAAABLqU/5PUJqdh5z7I/keepalive-survival-guides6.png?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Aram  Bartholl, a Berlin-based media artist, had created a similar public  data-sharing access points called “dead drops” in 2010, consisting of  USB drives embedded in public wall that invited people to upload and  download files of their choosing. Those drives are still lodged in the  sides of buildings in New York City.   “Keepalive”, on the other  hand, sits in a remote area that requires visitors to make appointments  with the landowner in order to visit, a necessity to prevent random  people from starting fire on the ground. The title, “Keepalive,” comes  from the technical term for a message that’s sent between devices on the  internet to check connectivity between them.   “It’s not about easy access,” Bartholl told Hyperallergic.  “It has a whole dystopian idea to it, like, will we need something like  this in the future? Or somebody finding this in a hundred years — is it  still working and they figure something out and they make a fire, or is  there going to be a moment where we’re going to need to make fire again  to get access to the data?”   <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sNTjTHkSzKM/Vr7OhIkkK4I/AAAAAAABLqY/0kbDWi3R8qU/keepalive-aram-bartholl-66.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-aB3PFJrfeBE/Vr7OiY4D6SI/AAAAAAABLqc/GXVMenwH0P8/keepalive-aram-bartholl-26.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-GtC_xnRG_eo/Vr7OjrPJsoI/AAAAAAABLqg/r-H62IUxibQ/keepalive-aram-bartholl-76.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xYrla1hikmA/Vr7OkwxWqYI/AAAAAAABLqk/rvJpc78GpJ0/keepalive-aram-bartholl-46.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-p-Cl_VdBZwg/Vr7Ol3nXSPI/AAAAAAABLqo/rqQB8Ieq2TQ/keepalive-aram-bartholl-52.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ynxNeLTmfAE/Vr7Omz1cxJI/AAAAAAABLqs/29orygAZjRc/keepalive-aram-bartholl-16.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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