Wednesday, March 10, 2010

WEEK 3 - txt, pix & mre: Mobile Phone Art

There are so many different approaches to mobile phone art; the mobile phone can be used to create, present or distribute digital art. Here are some great links to the various types of mobile phone art that has been created over the past decade.
Mobilising Phone Art
CELL PHONE: Art and the Mobile Phone

Portable Worlds
Future Screen Mobile
Dialtones (A Telesymphony)
Sleepy Urbanite

Some ideas for mobile phone art you may want to explore:
Poetry
Haiku (Japanese poetry)
SMS
MMS
Flash SMS/MMS
Video art
Short film
ASCII art
Collaborative piece
Game
GPS
Music
Ringtone
Sound
Light
Photography
The spoken word

And themes or issues you might want to address may include:
Privacy
Language
Space
Surveillance
Communication
Technology
Globalisation
Community

You may want to create the artwork on your phone or on the computer (i.e. in Illustrator) and then bluetooth it to your phone. You may want to create send the artwork to all of your peers, display it on your phone, use your phone as a part of a sculpture... there are so, so many possibilities! GO WILD!!!

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