Wi-Fi Zine Throwies
2017-2024
Workshop
@우루루
@Nam jun Paik Art center
@Infoshop Byulkkol
@Hackers and Designers
@Paju Typography Institute
You can see funny WI-Fi network names searched on your smartphone in streets, cafes, or subways.
In urban space, the name of a Wi-Fi network is a one-line message or a type of declaration.
This workshop will provide a tiny Wi-Fi sever device with which you are able to write and send one-line messages or a stories to the mid air.
These messages and stories will be produced as a form of small-scale independent publication.
Wi-Fi-Zine!? : Have you ever been searching for Wi-Fi signals on the street, in a café, or on the underground, come across a Wi-Fi signal with an intriguing name, and felt curious? What if it doesn’t even have a password? This is dangerous, suspicious, but it bothers me, I’m curious. In such moments, a Wi-Fi network name can be a one-liner, a greeting, or even bait. Wi-Fi-Zine is a miniature Wi-Fi router that, when people drawn by curiosity and surprise connect to my open Wi-Fi, shows them a webzine containing the story I want to tell. How is this possible, you ask? Simple. You know how, when using the internet in a library or café, you connect and a pop-up window appears asking for consent or for you to enter a username and password? Well, Wi-Fi-Zine works by exploiting this very mechanism!
Wi-Fi-Zine can only be accessed and read within the physical range of the router’s signal, so it’s like speaking in a secretive manner to a specific place where the signal is present, and to the few people encountered there. It’s quite different from the web on the internet, which connects everywhere, all the time, for everyone, isn’t it?
Wi-Fi server module + rechargeable battery + charging board = mobile Wi-Fi device
Wi-Fi Signals
Free Wi-Fi scam
The story of animals dying with their skulls open in the cognitive science laboratory
W-Fi Zine asking to show his grandparents around Seoul and talk about the Pyeongchang Olympics
The Truth About What We Really Need to Know About Chickens
Workshop Process:
Throw! WIFI ZINE Storytelling Session: Participants share stories they wish to throw into the air ->
Learning how to add text or images to the pop-up window on the WIFI Server Module, along with your WIFI ZINE name and WIFI title ->
Planning and writing your WIFI ZINE by structuring your story –>
Connecting rechargeable batteries to the WiFi server module to make it mobile, placing it in a container to plan and produce the WIFI ZINE object ->
Exploring and experimenting with locations, forms, or attitudes for the performance of your WIFI ZINE
오☁️완 02 - WIFI-Zine
🎾 2025 March 10, 16 1pm-3pm
at ururu
WIFI-Zine Publishing is seeking authors, planners, or anyone interested in co-publishing the ◯◯◯ series.
3/10 - wifi-zine Publication and Planning Meeting + Technical Understanding
3/16 - Pop-up web page creation, wifi-zine cover design
Wi-Fi Zine : Walking Signal
2019 April 5
at Hackers & Desingers
Interdisciplinary artist duo Dianaband (Wonjung Shin 신원정 and Dooho Yi 이두호) from Seoul guided this workshop to utilize mobile battery-powered ESP32 WiFi modules for publishing zine content. We built small web publications on top of Hotspot login screens. If you get a WiFi signal, you get a pop-up page which not associated with the WWW. On top of this you can build a small web page. Content can be audio, text or image files with a limit of around 2MB, and participants attached sensors to the module or to plan an inter-connected activity between the viewers. We explored the possibilities of hotspot publishing conceptually as well as technically.
A-archive: Wi-Fi Zine)
2017 OCT 26, 27
at Infoshop Byulkkol
Papaer Zine
