 My name is Aran Bhattol. I'm a Berlin-based artist. I started the Dead Drops project a year ago, a little bit more than a year ago in New York City, where I was artist-in-residence at the Media Art Institute iBeam. The first Dead Drop I did together with my friend Brie at the New York Resista MakerBot location in Brooklyn. It's all about sharing files offline. I also assume that a lot of you have seen that project online, so it's more like a wrap-up talk of what happened over the year. It's about sharing files offline. You can make your own Dead Drop in any place you want. It's just a USB flash drive. You cement into a wall. In the city, it's... Yeah, of course, there's no internet, so there's no IP number, there's no tracking. It's about having fun with files and being anonymous. So there's a whole website around it. You can make your own Dead Drop and submit it to the Dead Drop database. This screenshot is a couple of weeks ago. Maybe now it's 800 Dead Drops. I don't know, it says 738. So there's been around 750 Dead Drops being made since last November 2010. I'm pretty sure not all of them are existing still, but it's an ongoing sort of self-running worldwide. I consider it as an art project, but it's also very useful. Many people have done it in different locations. There's always the three pictures showing the location where it is, the information... When you scroll down what you don't see here, then there's the OpenStreetMap location, and also there's information what people put... Not what they put on the Dead Drop, because you should not tell online what you put on the Dead Drop. And then there's many people doing spin-off ideas. It goes different directions. These guys, they sold the LED out there to the brick wall. There's also wireless drops so you can submit Dead Drops in different types of Dead Drops. I also implemented doing live drops, which is actually a fire-sharing party. Not many people use that, but this is the wireless Dead Drop, which is also useful. There's other people like David Darts. He does the pirate box you might have seen online. It's like software, it's a server running on a router box and all that stuff. It's interesting to look into that. Of course, I also assume there's many people here who do or have done geocaching. Of course, there's some correlation to that. It's interesting to look back in the history of letterboxing. On one hand, Dead Drops is the spy game. I hide something and the other spy picks it up. On the other hand, there's the whole idea of letterboxing, which is from mid-19th century coming from UK. You have walks in the nature and you find something in a box. You put your stamp in your book, etc. There's a whole interesting history about it. The Dead Drops world map is also improved since there's different people helping on the project, programming apps, there's an open API, there's recently digital overdose, translated the whole Google Maps thing to OpenStreetMaps, which is great. People use Dead Drops for all kinds of fun experiments. People have done art shows here in France, art show on Dead Drops in the city, so people go and look at files. Also, bands release their music on it. Did you find all kinds of interesting files on Dead Drops? This is the current Berlin map. We still need to implement if a Dead Drop is still in function or not. This is sort of missing at this stage. This is the submit form where you can upload all your stuff. The drop types you can't see now, but it's wireless drops, it's live drops, it's USB flash drops, and there's also somebody, and then there's other, somebody just installed SD card readers somewhere. It was on a show at the MoMA in New York City this summer. Fall called Talk To Me, like an interaction design show, and people could drop their art in the Dead Drop in the MoMA, so I encouraged everybody to go there and put your, because all the artists want to be in the MoMA at some point, so go there and drop your art on the Dead Drop in the MoMA so you can claim you have art in the MoMA. What people did, and they just sent me back the five Dead Drops which are in the show, so that was kind of funny to go through them and to see what's on there. This was just recently, the iPhone app came out. There's also an Android app, and I will show it later. I pressed over the last 12 months, 14 months, interviews, things going on. People, journalists especially, keep asking like, so what's on them? I keep telling them like, yeah, well, I don't know, you have to go and check them yourselves, and that's the whole point. I mean, so people mostly don't, or it's, yeah, you always need to explain, you know, I didn't do like the 700 Dead Drops, it's people out there in the world did them, I only saw maybe 20 or 30 when I go to the city, time to time I check them. Yeah, this is like the people who worked on it. I'm very grateful for all the team members here doing work over the years. Yeah, there's an Android app, there's like different HTML5, mobile page stuff going on. Bruce Sterling did with his class the whole thing to layer, to the augmented reality browser. So, as I said, if you're interested to work with the API and stuff, you're invited.