Sweat Net

SmartPhone App, 2017.

Description

Part of the “Captive Portal” commissioned series, SWEAT NET enables museum visitors to access a museum’s wifi only after they have shaken smartphones vigorously. Seemingly simple, this action highlights an era of embodied digitality in which our bodies shape digital interactions and the boundaries between the flesh and the technology start to blur. This work asks: what if we are to labor and physically exert the body with a device in order to achieve the simple desired outcome of connecting to the Internet? SWEAT NET brings the technological device to the fore to examine the sometimes humorous bodily movements we are choreographed into in the name of connectivity.

SWEAT NET was commissioned by the Center for Contemporary Art (CCA) in Tel Aviv, Israel. It was coded by Liat Berdugo.

Exhibitions

“SWEAT NET: Captive Portal,” Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel. Jan 19 - Mar 30 2017.