X-MSG takes an unconventional approach to mobile phone technology in order to develop methods that sustain social formations and networks within the sex industry while exposing and subverting the values underlying the design of communication technologies.

Our research is founded on practical experiments with open source mobile telephony software informed by local knowledge from the sex industry and the support projects set up around it. Working with x:talk, a sex worker-led workers co-operative, we are developing text messaging systems to be used and adapted by women who work within the industry.

The project brings together sex work activism with social telephony and software, aiming to assist the organisation and activism of sex workers while bringing new political dimensions to our critical media experiments.

To get a feel of how our system works during the expo, text @expo to 07734 360773.