GSM Tower Antenna
I provided the technical assistance, with the creation of a 3G mobile phone tower and software to run it.
Title: Needs to Save my Life
Artist: Tal Engelstein
date: 23.7.2021
Location Levinsky Market Parking Lot, Tel Aviv-Yafo
Artist’s description of the work:
A stream of text messages is sent from a pirate cellular antenna – that is wired to a red parking car – to the cell phones of random passers-by in Levinsky Market. Every few seconds they receive a text message that turns up on their screen. The messages, whose context is intimate, are seemingly sent from an acquaintance, but it might be a wrong number. This is not an election campaign communication but a fictional script written by the artist and sent to unknown recipients. The script rolls out a sequence of messages from a woman in distress who lives somewhere near the market. She is isolated, asking for groceries and emotional support – her life needs saving.