We use Semaphore flags to transmit messages one character at a time across distance, the messages conveyed through the positioning of two flags in the hands of a sender. The transmitted information is appropriated from social networking websites, such as Facebook and Twitter, and signaled by a designated sender and subsequently recorded and translated by the other. The painstaking process forces us to slow down and removes the ease with which these mundane details are broadcast.
With this project, we are interested in the tension between the information that we willingly place in public on social networks and our resistance to government surveillance that would record similar daily activities.The project seeks make visible the invisible technological threads that connect us and undermines the ease and ubiquity of the instant communication model.
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