Exhibition History: NYMOMA, Safe 2005-06 Luggage Store Gallery, NO WAR, SF 2002 Headlands Center for the Arts, SF 2003 Jack Hanley Gallery, SF 2003 New Langton Arts, 2003
Dimensions: 2" x 18" x 4"
Artist: Amy Franceschini {thank you Michael Swaine for sewing}
Homeland Security Blanket is a set of 5 networked blankets. Each blanket is wirelessly networked to the internet and responds to the Homeland Security Acts fluxuating, color coded "Threat Levels". As a means to "disseminate information", these blankets disseminate temperature change and an indicating light which alerts the user of current threat and comforts them accordingly.
Technology (to be used): RF tags, BX24 chip, wireless hub, internet connection.
*This is a prototype. The "wired" version does not exist at this time.
