Created by ZU-UK, Rio Fone Hack is an audio experience currently installed as a public artwork at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London. Pick up the ringing phone to interact with one of three experiences exploring meditation, the flow of River Lea’s waters, and a journey into memory and distance.
The project is a continuation of the exhibition at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, where three iconic phone boxes from Rio de Janeiro were hacked and developed by Persis Jadé Maravala with artists Nacho, Xurde Durán, Andrzej Korolczuk and Ross Flight. In the previous version, phones rang as visitors walked past. Visitors picked up the phones to hear one of three fictional Brazilian artists who interacted with individual visitors via keypad and other sensors, including pulse, motion and voice, driven by the open-source computer kit Arduino.
