Pigeon Project
For The Privacy Project, originally initiated by the VPRO and Holland doc, we at the Design Department of the Sandberg Institute were asked to make a documentary about Privacy. We chose to step outside of the system and to communicate in the most radical private way which, to our knowledge, exists. On the roof of the Post CS, we have built a giant inbox where our 17 post-pigeons lived from April till July 2008. For one month we comunicated only via pigeon. We stoped all the emails, sms, phonecalls and mailpost.
Since the beginning of April 2008 we fed, cleaned and trained our own fledgling homing pigeons. In June 2008 they started their job flying trough out Amsterdam with our messages. In the meantime we arranged interviews with privacy researchers and experts, and made some actions around the city during June 2008. All this was material for our upcoming documentary. Stills from the documentary:
The Pigeon House on Top of The Post CS Building:
www.pigeonproject.net & weblogs.hollanddoc.nl/somethingtohide/
More about The Privacy Project at:
www.privacyproject.nl
Post-pigeons are reliable, intelligent and unsuspecting, and have a long history in underground communication.
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