FREE WIFI

Part 3 Available Now Online. Part 4 now on-view at the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center through July 27th, 2021.

FREE WIFI is an evolving dual channel episodic film project and multimedia installation featured in the 2021 Atlanta Biennial Virtual Remains exhibition. Virtual Remains bridges marginal and unconventional Project Spaces at the Contemporary to examine how artists are experimenting with technology to contend with flawed and fragmented archives. Jenkin's films will be released in 5 installments over the course of the 5-month exhibition, closing on August 1, 2021.

FREE WIFI offers a posthumous glimpse into the life of WIFI, whose story is narrated through journal entries and various files he left behind on an external hard drive. Jenkins has been hired to sort through and create a cohesive video of WIFI’s life by following the detailed instructions written by WIFI himself. Through the memorialization of this man, Jenkins reveals how the scattered and fragmented remains of a person’s life can be edited to uncover the beauty, love, and joy often eclipsed by death.