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Bitnik Derive - Stalking bankers

For this walk we had the following instructions from the Mediengruppe Bitnik:

1) Wait in front of a bank 2) Wait until a bankers leaves the building 3) Follow the banker until he enters a building 4) Document 5) Record your observations to the following telephone number xxxx

Sound recordings here: <a href="https://archive.org/details/Psychogeophysics_Summit_Bitnik_Derive" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.archive.org/details/Psychogeophysics_Summit_Bitnik_De...</a>

During the walk I was carrying a GHz range receiver built by Martin Howse and I recorded the "Maxwellian landscape" of the London financial district.

It was raining hard. I had to set up the electronics under the collonade next to Liverpool Street station and stow it in my backpack. I was understandably nervous handling electronics and wires in this sensitive area. We were watched by the smokers and the cappucino drinkers. But no one confronted us. Probably they assumed we were "normal" journalists setting up interview gear - instead of guerilla artists arranging their weapons of mass confusion.

Then we observed and followed three bankers, one of the Deutche Bank and two of the Royal Bank of Scotland. Two of them didn't notice anything. One made a perfect evasive manouvre consistent with "Moscow rules". But there was no consensus between the observers whether this was a purposeful action or pure coincidence.

Our stalking took us through Bishopsgate, Brushfield Street and Fournier Street along the strange and beautiful Christ Church Spitalfields by Hawksmoor.

Psychogeophysics summit: <a href="http://www.psychogeophysics.org/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.psychogeophysics.org/</a>