Numbers

Numbers is one of eight fictive trace stations considering the possible future uses of the FM spectrum long after analogue switch off. Part homage to shortwave numbers stations, on air since the cold war, the work predicts numbers stations will move to FM to be used by outlawed gangs, groups, agents and political movements. As the internet becomes heavily policed Numbers considers that activists may be driven back to past and more covert means. A series of micro FM transmitters broadcast through the radios a series of encripted messages taken from tweets from the Occupy movement.