WIFI-POET / WIFI诗人

“WIFI-POET” is a project by artist Northy Chen, first performed at Basement 6, Shanghai in 2017 with participation of around 200 poets. Through proprietary router and editing interface, participants assigned themselves pen-names and contributed to an ever-evolving poem comprised of Wi-Fi networks, by consistently naming and renaming them. The “WIFI-POET” book encapsulates over 2000 lines of verse through the 4 hours of collective creation, accompanied with photographs and luminescent ink overlay for the cover as well as several spreads inside, inspired by the “black box” nature of this new media art project.  《WIFI诗人》是艺术家Northy Chen的同名作品的诗集。作品首次发生在Basement 6艺术空间，当晚近200名诗人通过登陆手机端口对WIFI信号名称编辑修改，进行了诗歌的联合创作。以作品黑匣子的特性为灵感，诗集封面及内页局部以夜光油墨印刷。------- “WIFI-POET traces back to the short story I wrote for NERVEMILK. In the story, an organization called ‘WIFI-POET’ broadcasts poems through the lines of wireless network names by tampering with public routers. After writing the story, I have been hau