A piece by Yury Gitman turned an ordinary bike into a "Magicbike," by attaching a WiFi enabled iBook® (iBooks are "ruggedized") to a bike on a suspension mount, effectively creating a mobile hotspot. "Magicbike gets its uplink from the cell network, from other hotspots, and/or from other wireless bikes. The bike's clients (end user laptops, other bikes) provide uplinks for more hotspots, and public/private spaces in general," said Gitman.

At one point Gitman took the bike to a subway platform in Union Square, providing wireless Internet access two stories beneath the streets, where he sent an email to Mayor Bloomberg. Gitman used the software base-station feature in OS X. He started out trying to use Linux® and a PC for this experiment but couldn't get it to work. "Apple® has the best (but understated) wireless technology on market," said Gitman, although he couldn't help feeling as if he had become "a walking Apple commercial."

Earlier in the residency, Gitman teamed up with Carlos Gomez de Llarena to develop a game called Noderunner, the goal of which was to see who could pinpoint the highest number of locations where wireless signals were accessible from the street. The game made a playing field out of wireless spillover. Each time a team found a spot, it would upload a picture of the location. The game went on to win the 2003 Golden Nica for Net Excellence at the Arts Electronica Festival in Austria.

Typically, it is left up to advertisers to educate people on the changing technological landscape, but "Yury and Carlos used commonplace technology to beautifully and playfully illustrate the technological changes that are taking place, quite literally, all around us," said Perry Lowe, Eyebeam's Marketing and Membership Director.