Teleport Machine (Privacy Machines Part III)

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[ Submitter's Name ] Peter Bihr, Martin Skelly
[ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] The Waving Cat, University of Dundee
[ Submitter's Twitter ] @peterbihr @martin_skelly

[ Space ] cities
[ Exhibit ]
[ English ]

Description

Teleport Machine allows migrants to switch their IP addresses to a location of their choice, enabling them to connect to local online content in their home countries, like connecting to the BBC from abroad. Teleport Machines is part of a Privacy Machines, a family of experimental devices that explore better and easier way of controlling privacy levels in a connected home. Created in a collaboration with Mozilla Open IoT Studio. Collaborators also include Vladan Joler and Rachel Uwa.

Agenda

Teleport Machine helps explore what it means to live abroad through banal, day-to-day interactions like trying to watch the newscasts and pop culture you grew up with.

Participants

Technologists, designers, everyone who's ever lived in another country or knows someone who did.

Outcome

Teleport Machine is a conversation starter about the day-to-day impact of migration on our lives and the role that technology and media plays in shaping the migration experience.