Art, technology, politics and propoganda merge in Josh Kinberg’s master’s thesis.
Kinberg will officially roll out the bike during August’s Republican National Convention in New York, but he says the project is as much performance art as protest. The project homepage can be found at bikesagainstbush.com. See video of it in action in QuickTime or Real Video. …
1. Nokia 3650 cellphone receives a text message sent from Kinberg’s site. If the rider wants to print it, he sends it via Bluetooth to a Powerbook. …
5. Solenoid pistons trigger nozzles on inverted spray-chalk aerosol cans to blast out a dot. The rate of fire adjusts automatically based on the rider’s speed.
6. GPS device captures the position of the sprayed message, and the webcam snaps a pic; both are uploaded through the cellphone’s GPRS to a blog.
