Peek-a-Boo Cantenna

Performance Object
found materials, LCD monitor

Used in Exploration #5

The Peek-a-Boo Cantenna is a performance object for locating and viewing video. Constructed out found materials, such as aluminum pipe and drawer handles, it is a functioning 2.4 Ghz antenna connected to a video scanner that allows one to intercept wireless video and audio transmissions, which are viewable on a LCD monitor installed inside the object.

Cantenna Interior
Live video surveillance from a doorway as viewed on the cantenna monitor. Located within the Podewils’sches Palais in Berlin, Germany.
A visitor walks with the cantenna searching for live video throughout the building.