artist installing flash drives in walls. modern day dead drop.

Aram Bartholl , an artist from NYC has created quite a modern, communal artform.
his latest work, "dead drop" features him installing usb flash drives (not sure of size) into walls around NYC.

The idea is that people would walk up to a dead drop and drop their selected files onto the usb allowing others to look though their life. Shame it's only USB 2.0

"Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. I am ‘injecting’ USB flash drives into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space. You are invited to go to these places (so far 5 in NYC) 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 contains a readme.txt file explaining the project. ‘Dead Drops’ is still in progress, to be continued here and in more cities. Full documentation, movie, map and ‘How to make your own dead drop’ manual coming soon!"

check out the video:

http://player.vimeo.com/video/16620712


-zac