Christoph Wachter & Mathias Jud
Can You Hear Me? 2014
![Can Youhear Me Christoph Wachter & Mathias Jud, Can You Hear Me?, 2014](https://cms.hek.ch/files/images/Projekte/net_based-award/2016/_placeholder/canYouhearMe.jpg)
In their interventions, the two Swiss artists question the approaches to the digital space and its underlying infrastructure. At the Swiss embassy in Berlin – adjacent to the German Chancellor’s Office – they constructed wooden towers with improvised antennas made out of ordinary tin cans and set up a Mesh-Network allowing anonymous communication. In a room highly monitored by intelligence offices, they thereby create a space for exchange where, for example, messages can be sent anonymously to the NSA.
Wachter/Jud’s work is a remarkable example for an artistic practice that is participatory and relies on the creation of communities. Their artistic strategy creates an awareness of the dependencies and regularities of a globally interconnected world. With their intervention they reconquer the digital space as a place of free communication.
Artwork: https://canyouhearme.de
Artist: http://www.wachter-jud.net