My name is Aram Batal. I'm a building based artist. I started the Dead Drops project a year ago, a little bit more than a year ago in New York City, where I was artist and residence at the Media Art Institute Ibeam. The first Dead Drop I did together with my friend Bree at the New York Resister Make-A-Bot location in Brooklyn. It's all about sharing files offline. I also assume that a lot of you have seen that project online, so it's more like a wrap-up talk of what happened over the year. It's about sharing files offline. You can make your own Dead Drop in any place you want. It's just a USB flash drive. You cement into a wall. In the city it's, yeah, of course there's no internet, so there's no IP number, there's no tracking. It's about having fun with files and the anonymous. So that's the whole website around it. You can make your own Dead Drop and submit it to the Dead Drop database. This screenshot is a couple of weeks ago. It's maybe now 800 Dead Drops, I don't know what it says, 738. So there's been around 750 Dead Drops been made since last November 2010. I'm pretty sure not all of them are existing still, but yeah, it's an ongoing sort of self-running worldwide. I consider it as an art project, but it's also very useful. Many people have done it in different locations. There's always the three pictures like showing the location where it is, like the information. When you scroll down what you don't see here, then there's the open street map location and also there's information what people put, like, yeah, not what they put on the Dead Drop because you should not tell online what you put on the Dead Drop, right? So, and then there's many people doing like spin off ideas, it goes different directions. Here, these guys, like they soldered the LED out there to the brick wall. There's also wireless drops so you can submit Dead Drops in different types of Dead Drops. I also, we implemented doing live drops, which is actually a fire sharing party. Not many people use that, but this is the wireless Dead Drop, which is also useful. There's other people like David Darts. He does the pirate box. You might have seen online. It's like a software, it's a server running on a router box and all that stuff. It's interesting to look into that. Of course, I also assume there's many people here who do or have done geocaching. Of course, there's some correlation to that. It's interesting to look back in the history of letter boxing. On one hand, Dead Drops is the spy game, right? So, I had something and something else. On the other hand, this, the whole idea of letter boxing, which is from mid-19th century, coming from UK, so you have walks in the nature, you find something in a box, you put your stamp in your book, etc. So, there's a whole interesting history about it. The Dead Drops world map is also improved since there's different people helping on the project, programming apps. There's an open API. There's recently, digital overdose, translated the whole Google Maps thing to open street maps, which is great. People use Dead Drops for all kinds of, yeah, all kinds of fun experiments. So, people have done art shows here in France, art show on Dead Drops in the city. So, people go and look at files, also bands release their music on it, or you find all kinds of interesting files on Dead Drops. Yeah, this is the Berlin, the current Berlin map. We still need to implement, like, if a Dead Drop is still in function or not, this is sort of missing at this stage. Well, yeah, this is the sub-mittform where you can upload all your stuff. There's the drop types you can't see now, but it's wireless drops, it's life drops, it's USB flash drops, and there's also somebody, and then there's other, and somebody just install SD card readers somewhere. It was on a show at the MoMA in New York City this summer, fall called Talk to Me, like a design, interaction design show, and people could drop their art in the Dead Drop in the MoMA, so I encouraged everybody to go there and put your, because all the artists want to be in the MoMA at some point, so go there and drop your art on the Dead Drop in the MoMA so you can claim you have art in the MoMA. What people did, and they just sent me back the five Dead Drops, which are in the show, so that was kind of funny to go through them and to see what's on there. Yeah, this was, like, just recently the iPhone app came out, there's also an Android app, and yeah, I will show it later. There was lots of press over the last 12 months, 14 months, interviews, things going on, people, journalists, especially keep asking, like, so what's on them? I keep telling them, like, yeah, well, I don't know, you have to go, and check them yourself, and that's the whole point. So people mostly don't, or it's, yeah, you always need to explain, you know, no, I didn't do the 700 Dead Drops, it's people out there in the world did them, and I only saw maybe 20 or 30 when I go to the city, time to time I checked them. Yeah, this is like the people who worked on it. I'm very grateful for all the team members here doing work over the years. Yeah, there's an Android app, there's a different HTML5 mobile page stuff going on. Bruce sterling did with his class, the whole thing to layer to the augmented reality browser. So, as I said, it's, if you're interested to work with the API and stuff, you'll know it.