WIA < > WIA project documentation online
Thursday November 12, 2009
“WIA < > WIA”, short for “Water in Africa < > Water in Austria”, is an installation that Ars Electronica has commissioned for their “80+1 – A Journey around the world” exhibition which took place in 2009 on the Linz’ main square. The installation, however, was a hoax. I made the organizers and the audience believe, that an
African artist, called “Melissa Fatoumata Touré” would have connected the public well in the Mali village “Koulouninko” to the Internet. The installation was supposed to transfer data about the amount of water that is pumped in realtime to the toilet in the exhibition space, where the same amount of water would feed the toilet flush.