*It's nice to see how deftly this creative, speculative intervention is handled, created, presented, spun, covered by the magazine... a class act all around. We're gonna be seeing a lot more of this kind of thing. It's very twenty-teens.
http://www.domusweb.it/en/news/electronic-countermeasures-/
"A compelling new project from Liam Young and his Tomorrows Thoughts Today team sees a novel re-appropriation of aerial recon and police surveillance components, using them instead to provide a "pirate" internet service. Taking inspiration both conceptually and mechanically from the U.S. Government's drone / u.a.v. developments, the "Electronic Countermeasures" project, presented at the 2011 GLOW Festival in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, looks to explore the design and manufacture of an air-borne nomadic infrastructure.
"The key role that the internet has played in the last year of protests and activism was one so important that it saw Governments cut off internet access nationwide in a bid to slow the momentum of demonstrations, an act that has led to the creation of the project which would act as a solution to that precise scenario. A fleet of GPS enabled quad-copter drones, which float in formation out of harm's way have been created that transmit their own wifi network temporarily before dispersing to escape detection before reforming elsewhere...."
