Spectropolis projects: WiFi Ephemera Cache by Julian Bleecker

About WiFi Ephemera Cache: WiFi Ephemera Cache is like a digital swap meet - an electronic storehouse of other people's shared digital treasures, like music, stories, photos in the form of audio, digital pictures and word documents.

The WiFi Ephemera Cache uses the popular 802.11 WiFi system, so if your laptop or PDA has WiFi capabilities, you'll be able to connect to the Cache, grub through all the ephemera and upload your own digital ephemera for others to forage for. Share your old music files, or scraps of stories or an old photo from summer camp. Every file you upload can be tagged with extra information and attributes to help others sift through all the piles of goodies!
About Julian Bleecker: Julian Bleecker has been involved in technology design for over 15 years, creating mobile, wireless, and networked-based applications across a diversity of project idioms including entertainment, art-technology, brand marketing, university research and development, interactive advertising and museum exhibition. His expertise is technology implementation, innovation and concept development. This fall, he begins a faculty appointment as Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California's Interactive Media Division and Critical Theory departments, and will participate in a  research group at the Annenberg Center's Institute for Media Literacy exploring the future of mobile technology applications. He has a Ph.D. from the History of Consciousness Board at the University of California Santa Cruz, a Masters of Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.

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Spectropolis thanks these organizations for their help: Bway.net, Wiselephant, Justin T. Molloy and jtmdsgn, B Squared Design, Starworks, and the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation

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