TL;DR +49 174 276 6483. This mobile phone was used to call the personal number of William Binney, the NSA whistleblower. It is now also under direct surveillance by intelligence agencies. Call this phone from your own device to add yourself to Binney's social graph. Why should you do that, you will ask. It’s true, you’ll be associated with Binney. But what’s at stake here is something a lot more important than the potential ramifications of a data trail. Do you really want to live a life where you shy away from completely normal, legal things, like calling a mobile phone? Here’s an opportunity not to be cowed by mass surveillance.

The Hop 3 project was commissioned by ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe on the occasion of the exhibition Global Control and Censorship, curated by Bernhard Serexhe and Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás. It is now part of the collection of ZKM. From 2017 to 2019 it was part of a show touring through a series of Eastern European art institutions. It has already been shown at Tallinn Art Hall/Estonia, Nová Synagóga/Žilina/Slovakia, Galeria Arsenał/ Białystok, Poland, Vilnius/Latvia, Prague/Czech Republic, and, coming up, in Riga/Latvia and at Modem in Debrecen/Hungary. The Cologne part of the project included 200 advertising columns throughout the city and was made possible with support from the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, the Kulturamt of the City of Cologne and Fa. Ströer. Design: Studio Frith, London Concept and idea: Christian Sievers