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February 7, 2008

Charming Burka @ Seamless 2008

7e1f3d43beb829828fbf72c038e6c84c_m.jpg During Seamless: Computational Couture," the "Charming Burka" was introduced to the public. This burka sends out a self-defined picture of the wearing person via Bluetooth.

A model presented the Charming Burka on the catwalk while the audience could receive the portrait of the model on their mobile phones.

After the catwalk visitors came around to discuss the idea or pick up the picture, if they did not do this before.

The Charming Burka deals with Freud‘s idea that all clothes can be positioned between appeal and shame.

The Burka was chosen, because it is often perceived in the west as a symbol of repression. A digital layer was added so that women can decide for themselves where they want to position themselves virtually.

The Burka sends an image, chosen by the wearer, via Bluetooth technology. Every person next to her can receive her picture via mobile phone and see the women's self-determined identity.

According to the artist Markus Kison the laws of the Koran are not broken, so the Charming Burka allows the possibility of living a more Western life, should a women so desire.

Cameraphone and burka related: - Taking Photos Through a Burka

October 28, 2007

Wireless picturephone prototypes headed to history museum

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A couple of wireless picturephone prototypes (circa 1993) have recently been acquired by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.

[via Engadget]

October 5, 2007

Look what I took on my mobile

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"Acclaimed photographer and artist Henry Reichhold, has taken pictures in nine cities on five continents with a Nokia N95 phone. Thee images are up to 7m (23ft) wide panoramas. Metro reports via Spluch.

"Reichhold took the pictures by using sequential firing to get six shots in a row, building up 30 images of the sky, each with one-third overlap.

The 52-year-old , from South Kensington in West London, started using his mobile because it was small and convenient to carry around.

"When people see the potential in a mobile phone, they will be stunned by the colour and the quality and, hopefully, look at the phones in a different light," he added.

The pictures are featured in his Connected World exhibition – which runs in 'real' and 'virtual' (Second Life) format. Click here for
wherabouts dates and details

Related, sort of:

-- Nude photography taken with camera phone - At the IFA 2007 Guido Karp exhibits his experience with his mobile phone and showcased an impressive series of photos that are part of a series that will be available starting October 2007 in his book “The Nudes - Photography with a Cyber-shot mobile”.

September 4, 2007

Nude photography taken with camera phone

mobile-nude-photography.jpg Guido Karp, born in 1963 in Mayen, Eifel (Germany) and professional photographer, is changing the image of today’s mobile camera phone.

At the IFA 2007 Guido Karp exhibits his experience with his mobile phone and showcased an impressive series of photos that are part of a series that will be available starting October 2007 in his book “The Nudes - Photography with a Cyber-shot mobile”.

Guido Karp used a Sony Ericsson K810i Cyber-shot mobile phone and printed large format photos without any photo correction.

[via Let's Go Mobile]

August 14, 2007

Spellbinder reveals invisible art

_44048021_phrenia_300.jpg Scottish researchers are turning to camera phones to help bridge the virtual and real worlds. The BBC reports.

"Using image-matching algorithms the researchers have found a way to adorn the real world with digital content.

The technology has already been used to create a guide of Edinburgh that allows people to find virtual artworks placed around the city using their mobile.

Another related project uses the technology to automatically update a person's blog with their location.

"It's about using a camera phone as a magic wand," said Dr Mark Wright of the Division of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh who came up with the idea.

At the heart of Spellbinder, as the project is known, is a database of all the places that participants have added data to. People query it by taking a snap of a location with their phone then using multimedia text messages to send it to Spellbinder."

July 13, 2007

Collective Art Over Mobile Networks

collectiveart.gif New technologies have a way of giving rise to new art forms, writes Killerap.

"One of the newest -- and most beautiful -- is a mobile-generated collective artwork emerging from an international art workshop at the Mix Studio in New York, led by French artists Olivier di Pizio and Gonzalo Belmonte.

Di Pizio and Belmonte are bringing together 20 French and American painters to create collaborative art, as they have done for more than 15 years. As in earlier collaborative work, each artist contributes photographs, documents, and other items from his or her own life and uses them in the work.

This year, for the first time, the artists also will be using camera phones to populate a real-time collective media blog on Cellfish.com.

You can view the workshop on Cellfish.com, or receive the artists’ creations in real time on your cell phone. You can also go and see the collective digital creation at the FIAF Gallery in New York:

July 11, 2007

Tech Savvy Museums hope to attract young audience

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A growing number of arts organizations are capitalizing on e-mailing, text messaging, and online social networking as a way of building new audiences, writes The New York Sun.

"Just like other advertisers, arts groups hope that becoming more tech-savvy will help them speak more effectively to young audiences.

One European company is marketing a technology that allows museums to take advantage of viral marketing. VideoMail technology developed by Bitmove, takes the e-postcard concept a step further, allowing your visitors at visitor centers, museums and events to use video kiosks to record a 15 second message to camera and then e-mail it to three friends."

July 9, 2007

audioTagger: Wireless Phonography

audiotagger.gif audioTagger will be presented at Digital Art Weeks Zürich 10-14 July.

audioTagger is a mobile-phone-sound-art-in-urban-space research project, or can be defined as, wireless phonography ("mobile sound writing"). audioTagger is a momentary exploration of urban space, to capture a sonic moment using mobile technology.

Anybody with a data enabled mobile phone can participate and contribute to AudioTagger's exploration of the environment, using the mobile phone as a field recorder, "phonographic tool", ubiquitous and artistic. The mobile phone is used in this application, being the most ubiquitous tool at present, within wireless architecture; creating a seamless computing environment with the Internet.

The location of the field-recording can be viewed and the sound listened to, on a Google map

If anybody out there want their location on the audioTaggermap, just shout!

[via e-Mail]

July 3, 2007

Identity Protection System

0unperutart.jpg Régine over at we-make-money-not-art.com reports on a project showing at the RCA's Great Exhibition in London, called IDPS (IDentity Protection System.

"Interaction designer Miquel Mora proposes a new way to protect our visual identity from the invasion of ubiquitous surveillance cameras, by sticking a special sticker on your jacket which blurred your image on the video screen".

In his own words: DPS allows users to secure their identity. It gives them the power to reveal or hide their image with subtle gestures. With IDPS they are in control of their identity.

IDPS technology could be printed or embedded in all kind of items, from simple badges to clothes or jewellery. With IDPS users can always feel comfortable, knowing that with a simple gesture like smiling, they are in control.

March 21, 2007

Edison Mobile Remake

46690.gif Edison Mobile Remake by French net artist Albertine Meunier, is a project of movie remakes using new technologies.

The main aspect of this project is to realize remakes of Edison movies using a cameraphone (a Nokia N90 mobile phone).

It is in a way to come back to the very beginning of the cinema with this very new tool. Secondly, as a ready made, short Edison movies fit perfectly well on the new screen (the 4th screen) of a mobile phone.

These movies have been made with a mobile phone, a N90 Nokia, and made for viewing on a mobile device. All the movies are available for the mobile format (3gp).

reBlogged from Rhizome.org via via we-make-money-not-art.com/del.icio.us

February 13, 2007

Sleepyurbanite

su2.jpg Sleepyurbanite is an art project that compiles photos of people sleeping on Chicago’s subway, by indie musician and artist, Yvonne Doll, Doll took all of the photos with her Motorola V577 camera phone.

In her own words: Sleepyurbanite.com is the freaky, love-child of my frustration with slogging away in day job land and my unwavering compulsion to make art.

This is a holding place for thoughts and images that I collect from the people, places and things I encounter on my daily journey in sweet home urban-opolis, Chicago, Il.

[via Josh Spear]

Inverted Affects

laurabey.gif Interesting, specially today following NY Times article on teenage-fight videos posted on video sharing sites, picked up earlier. A new media artist has integrated teenage video fights in her work, which is included in the e-show „Link-a" via vinculo-a.

Inverted Affects by new media artist Laura Bey is a visual art, showing video clips of teenage fights posted on line and posted upside down.

"All the videos, most of them anonymous, are freely available on the net and have been gathered by Laura
Bey straight from some of the most famous and visited videoblogs. The videos "borrowed" here bear witness to scenes of young violence, fights and many diverse clashes.

However, in many of them, it is easy to detect that these violent scenes have been feigned and recorded; these performances of street violence have been made by the youths themselves as some kind of game or entertainment to be then enjoyed and shared through the videos of its entry.

Bey stresses the intensity of the relation between technology, entertainment and violence in the youth world, and, more directly, in the more and more widespread identification of violence with enjoyment.

[via rhizome]

February 7, 2007

Buttons. A camera that - using a mobile communication device - takes other's photos

buttonstext1.jpg buttonstext2.jpg Buttons takes on the notion of the camera as a networked object.

"It is a camera that will capture a moment at the press of a button. However, unlike a conventional analog or digital camera, this one doesn't have any optical parts.

It allows you to capture your moment but in doing so, it effectively seperates it from the subject. Instead, as you will memorize the moment, the camera memorizes only the time and starts to continuously search on the net for other photos that have been taken in the very same moment.

Essentially, it is a camera that - using a mobile communication device - takes other's photos. "

[via we-make-money-not-art.com]

November 29, 2006

Footprints interactive installation celebrates feet as mobile symbol

grid.jpg Footprints is a camera phone based interactive installation proposed for the Art Center Nabi for Mobile Asia Competition 2006. It celebrates mobility and diversity of the connected community through digital technologies. Feet are a symbol of being mobile.

The installation consists of multiple screens displaying images of different pairs of feet embedded in the floor. The images are from one perspective, that is the top-down, self point-of-view portrait of one's own feet at a particular location.

... The audience are asked to participate by uploading their top-down feet images from their camera mobile phone via MMS, email, this website, or wireless connection at the installation site. The images rotate around the grid to show as many images as there are in the system.

[via we-make-money-not-art.com]

October 10, 2006

myartspace.com

header_logo.gif Myartspace enables students (as part of a school visit) to collect physical objects from a cultural venue using a mobile phone, learn more about the objects that they collect, and then publish their own gallery online. [via del.icio.us/foe]

Use mobile phones, provided to your whole class, to collect and find out more about the objects. Capture memories and create online galleries of your visit. Back at school, your class can see their galleries online, learn more about the things they've seen and share their discoveries with each other and their families.

"Self-Portrait" by Ethan Ham

selfportrait.jpg Self-Portrait is a software search for the artist's face among the millions contained in the photos uploaded to Flickr.

The project's site displays three photos:

-- 1) an ever-changing photo that depicts what is currently being evaluated by "Self-Portrait's" facial recognition software;

-- 2) the most recent photo that was identified as containing a face.

"Self-Portrait" is a 2006 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turblulence web site. It was made possible with funding from the Jerome Foundation.

[via networked performance]

October 6, 2006

Perspectives of London: Nokia's New Films

nokia-video-london-lg1.jpg Nokia has unveiled their latest move to bring themselves ever closer to being associated with video content and its creation. Digital-Lifestyles reports.

"They've sponsored four prominent UK people known for design and style (Jefferson Hack, Naomi Cleaver, Nigel Coates and Tom Dixon) to make short films, using the Nokia N93. They were asked to reflect their views of London.

In an online-meets-real-world tie-up, the films will be shown at the Architecture Foundation's Yard Gallery from today until 21 October. Alongside the moving images will be stills and a behind the scenes short-film of the making. The films will be avaialable for viewing online."

July 4, 2006

Mobile Phone Art Project: "Connect to Art China"

200607040208_flight---xu-pb-b.jpg Connect to Art," is a project initiated by Nokia, is based on the premise that "art shouldn't be restricted to museums or galleries" and allows contemporary artwork to be downloaded on to your phone, making art more accessible to a larger part of the public, according to Shanghaiist who covered the opening last Saturday.

"The project coordinators have invited five of the best contemporary Chinese artists - Ai Weiwei, Feng Mengbo, Xu Bing, Yang Fudong and Zhang Peili - to create a short video program that can be freely downloaded, reports the Shangai Daily.

There are 3000 originals available. The works of art are free of charge but the number of downloadable works is limited.

Click here for Xu Bing's screenshots.

According to Joe Martin Hill, president of the Vision-Connect at Nokia. "At a time when the works of the bright stars of Chinese contemporary art are selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars, it is wonderful to be able to share specially made works with the global public free of charge. And this excited the artists, too!"

... What was a simple form of amusement is now turning into a form of art.

"It is different from traditional photography," says Wang Rongping, president of the association. "It arouses more interest in photography from the public."

June 12, 2006

Radar Funk [WMMNA]

11pipppp.jpg RadarFunk is software for mobile phones that can scan drawings and transform them into beats.

Users are invited to frame one of the several patterns, shoot a picture, and the player starts sending notes to the server.

Framing exactly the center of the image can produce a regular beat, but moving a bit off center can give a shuffle result (swing). [reBlogged from WMMNA]

June 2, 2006

Don't shout it, Tratt' it [via WMMNA]

tratti.jpg The TRATTIs are wearable screaming devices for children. TRATTIs generate noise and sound and music (depending on your ear) according to what the kid is looking at. Each TRATTI is different, yet all are similar. The prototype plays the visual world as the score

Though the TRATTI looks very low tech, it actually is a high tech device. A mobilephone with camera runs the system. It also contains a megaphone-shaped horn, an amplifier and electronics. TRATTI uses custom-made software, developed in mobile processing, to interpret the images as sound that the phone takes, then it plays out loud the sound it generates. the software was done in mobile processing.

A work by Laura Beloff & Martin Pichlmair

reBlogged from WMMNA

April 4, 2006

Tiny Art, Big Experience

20060331.gifAOL Media Miniature, an exhibition on view at Pratt Manhattan Gallery through April 20, features seven artists 'who create intentionally miniature work with monumental implications.' Marc Lafia, Lev Manovich, Jane Philbrick, Charlene Rule, Dave Simonds, Grahame Weinbren, and the-phone-book Limited present pieces that manipulate or defy scale to create ultimately subjective listening and viewing experiences.

Visitors will interact with the installations to see and hear pioneering Internet mini-movies from the 1990s, films and ring tones on cell phones, a voice recording reconstructed using speech synthesis techniques, and an artist’s Internet diary, among other works. A “Philmphest” of cell phone films made by Pratt students in a workshop with the-phone-book Limited will be shown during the opening reception.

With art made for portable devices like MP3 players and cell phones, the 'mass social experience' of art once confined to theatres, museums, and cathedrals is now personal and mobile. New Yorkers can get personal with the work by visiting the exhibition, which is accompanied by a series of free events.

[via rhizome]

November 11, 2005

BUSY SIGNALS: TELEPHONIC ART IN MOTION

busysignal_rotary_telCD239.jpg Pacific Film Archive presents: BUSY SIGNALS: TELEPHONIC ART IN MOTION, a two-part series:

-- Rotary on Wed Nov 16: Live Performance by Marisa Olson. Marshall McLuhan claimed that the word phony didn't enter the language until the word telephone did. This idea inspired Andy Warhol to develop a quasi–TV show with people arguing on the phone.

-- Touchtone on Wed Nov 30: Live Performance by Jon Brumit. Some filmmakers are closet phonephreaks, and tonight's program brings them out of the phone booth.

On both evenings, Benjamin Hill and Carrie Burgener from UC Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems will involve us in a projected mosaic using your camera phone images as raw material.

[via Networked_Performance]

November 9, 2005

Mobile Video Phone Art Project

cracks.jpg mo.vid.1 is part of the Moving Pictures show which opened at the Dallas Center for Contemporary Art last Friday.

It's a mobile video project that updates every time the artist, Dean Terry, sends a video from his mobile phone to the gallery - often several times a day. The display changes as new videos are sent from the phone, though wireless networks, and to a computer in the gallery.

In addition to the videos updating in the gallery space, they also appear online at 100lies.com.

October 18, 2005

Virtual gallery to be filled by your pictures

bibiuioi09.jpg Ico, Goshka Macuga and mwr collaborated on an installation which allows members of the public to send in their own artwork via mobile camera-phone for display in this ‘virtual gallery’.

The challenge was to seamlessly integrate basic, and often low-resolution, camera-phone imagery into a polished, virtual environment. SHOWCASES is a cinematic sequence of intriguing rooms, staircases and dramatic corridors – beautifully shot in black and white by photographer Nigel Spalding. The result is a constantly updated piece of artwork in ever changing environments.
As the main installation tours the UK, the SHOWCASES website also allows people to view their submissions online at any time at:
www.hayward.org.uk/britishartshow6/showcases

Thanks Benjamin.

October 3, 2005

Cambrian Game with Camera Phones

keitaicambrian.gif The Cambrian Game, by Toshihiro Anzai and Rieko Nakamura, is a game in which players submit their own "leaf" to a "tree." You then link a new leaf to the existing leaf that inspired you to create the new one.

This game is typically played by multiple players and generates a tree that grows according to how ideas propagate, transform, and evolve through the players' interactions with a social media space. The game could be played using different kinds of digital and analog media like drawings, abstract shapes, camera phone photos, haiku poems, etc.

At Aichi Expo, the artists organized several sessions of the game, one of which is done using camera phones.

reBlogged from we-make-money-not-art.com

September 22, 2005

Playing FLICKR v2.0

gayfish.jpg Playing Flickr is a public space installation by Mediamatic on the 11th floor of the PostCS building in Amsterdam (cf Flickr Peep Show)

The diners in Restaurant 11 can use their mobile phones to submit a keyword of their choice, which will later appear on the surrounding screens with corresponding photographs so that while they dine the backdrop of the restaurant will be adapted to their personal wishes.

Playing Flicker is a concept of Willem Velthoven. The software is developed by Cuno de Boer at Mediamatic Atelier."

September 12, 2005

Artists to record rail travellers

50.jpg According to the BBC, three artists will be riding Wessex Trains in September and October looking for inspiration among the carriages.

-- Bronwen Bradshaw will be encouraging people to do drawings that will go into print

-- Jenni Dutton will be looking at their luggage.

-- Leo Saunders will record images using digital technology such as mobile phones and display it on the internet.

The Moving On project was organised by National Express Group train company, Wessex Trains and Somerset Art Weeks.

August 22, 2005

Mobile Journeys

mj_logo4.gif Mobile Journeys, a national arts initiative dedicated to exploring the creative potential of mobile devices and to fostering the development of Australian mobile culture, has launched an interactive artwork and is calling on the public to participate by sending in an image via MMS.

"Imagine a giant mosaic made from 10,000 'tiles', each one a photo taken and sent ‘into' the artwork using a camera-phone by someone hoping to make a difference."

It's an installation artwork that asks you to think about Despair and Hope. It invites you to interact with it and your input affects how the artwork evolves. Plus, by interacting you're also raising money for Amnesty International Australia.”

[via MocoNews]

June 14, 2005

Perfect pics from cell phone

robertclark.jpg Renowned photographer Robert Clark set across America to showcase the abilities of the new high-resolution Sony Ericsson 710a - 1.3 megapixel camera phone. [via USA Today]

Check out the gallery of his work and judge for yourself.

Click here to view slideshow.

Related:

-- Robert Clark Embarks on First Photojournalistic Study of North America Captured With a Camera Phone - Sony Ericsson on February 23, 2005 announced the kick-off of the Image America tour with award-winning photographer Robert Clark.

June 12, 2005

Snapshot: From Box Brownies to Camera Phones

dog_paper.jpg For 3 months the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego (MoPA) will be holding an interesting exhibition on imagery. Snapshot: From Box Brownies to Camera Phones opens tonight and will run until September 18th.

Alongside original black and white and color snapshots from the 1920s to the 1960s, MoPA adds a 21st century spin to this exhibition: a 'live feed' of camera phone images from TextAmerica will be displayed on three screens within the gallery.

The exhibition asks the audience to evaluate how we picture and preserve notions of ourselves, our culture, our pasts, and a fuller investigation of the word "image."

[via Darla Mack]

May 19, 2005

Snap it up

90_2.JPG Some of you may have seen an exhibition called "14 Days" last year, in which camera phone pictures from a selection of celebrities were displayed.

Now Sony Ericsson - who sponsored the show - is using eBay to auction off a selection of images for a children's charity called Click Sargent. [via The Guardian]

The above photo was taken by Barry McGuigan while commentating at one of 2004's boxing fights.

Related post:

-- Fourteen Days of their lives: European Camera Phone art exhibition - Hosted by Proud Galleries in Camden, Celebrities such as Irvine Welsh, Helena Christansen, Trevor Nelson and Claudia Schiffer are documenting Fourteen Days of their lives using the Sony Ericsson K700i.

May 18, 2005

Teenagers' MMS diaries

1135.jpg Postcards from Chatteris is a record of Spring 2005 made by a group of teenagers from Chatteris, a rural part Cambridgeshire in the UK, using mobile phone picture messages.

After working with professional photographer Martin Figura to sharpen up their eye for a photograph, the group were given a camera phone with pay-as-you go credit. Each person taking part had the camera phone for one week.

They were asked to send one picture message each day direct to a web site, showing something from their day-to-day lives in Chatteris. It was completely up to them what they decided to photograph and send in.

Nothing was more or less important than anything else.

The photographs were posted directly onto the site, without being edited, so that the group had to take responsibility for their own creative decisions.

At the end of one week, they passed the phone on to the next person in the chain.

The resulting photos are funny, lively, striking and most importantly capture truthful moments that a professional photographer would find it impossible to access.

Postcards From Chatteris is a camera phone project from Blink, who devised The Guardian‚s SMS poetry competition in 2001 and the influential City Poems, 2003 -2005.

doc-u

33036.gif doc-u is an interactive installation made up of visual self-documentation. The project exploits user-friendly technology (mobile phone cams and Macromedia Flash) to allow multiple images to be shown simultaneously. [via Rhizome]

Jess Loseby and the Babylon Gallery have been holding workshops with schools and community groups local to the gallery using 5 mobile camera phones. The participants were asked to randomly document themselves and their environment in a set time.

They were encouraged not to delete or alter any images, as part of the aesthetic of the installation was to highlight the beautiful 'accidents' and to dismiss attempts to 'make art'. The project is now open across the Internet to everyone.

May 3, 2005

Playful ways to share mobile phone snaps

IMG_1145.jpg Yet another IDII thesis project Régine Debatty from near near future saw at the Greenhouse Effect show during the Salone del Mobile in Milan.

"Bernd Hitzeroth's Experiencing Mobile Image project explores new ways to share images on the mobile phone.

[...] One set of ideas explores sharing digital images through physical objects like stickers or concrete walls. The phone becomes the lens through which we can reveal images hidden in the real world. The interactions are prototyped using two connected touch screens as well as a mock camera-phone".

April 12, 2005

Project puts camera phones to artistic use

capitolaathlens.jpg The novelty of taking covert pictures with a camera phone may have worn off as quickly as the controversy surrounding it, but a group of University students insist that these gadgets have a better use -- art, reports to The Red and Black student newspaper.

"As their capstone project for their New Media Institute certificates, Laurie Holcombe, Katie Lindsley, Elizabeth Griffin and Mary O'Keefe have created athLENS, a forum for expression powered by cell phones.

"We wanted to create a worthwhile use for camera phones," said O'Keefe, a senior from Atlanta.

To join, participants must commit to send a photo each day for five days and provide their cell phone number.

Each day, the athLENS group sends out a text message prompt to participants, who then photograph their responses to the prompt and send it back to the database by the end of the day. The pictures are then posted on the Web site gallery.

Some examples of prompts are:

- "What's in your wallet?"

- "Name that tune" and

- "Blame it on the rain"

Responses during the test run have ranged from the intuitive -- a picture of a record store in response to "Name that tune" -- to the cryptic -- chocolate chip cookies in response to "What's in your wallet?

This and other capstone projects for the New Media Institute will be on display at Go Mobile or Go Home, an exhibition to be held in Athens in conjunction with the Twilight Criterium on April 30.

April 4, 2005

New Film Awards ‘calls' for mobile phone users

3904_01.jpg Siemens is promoting its SX-1 mobile phone with inbuilt “camcorder” functionality by sponsoring a new award category for budding and established film makers at the St Kilda Film Festival, reports Gizmag.

"The new award has attracted interest from over 100 filmmakers in Australia, New Zealand and Asia and is called the Siemens Micro Movie Award.

Over the past month directors have risen to the challenge of making a 90 second movie with hundreds of SX1 mobiles having been distributed internationally, piquing the interest and creativity of many movie makers."

Related Camphone Film Festivals:

-- Winners of Orange Mobile short film contest to be awarded at Cannes Film Festival

-- Cingular Mobile FIlm Festival

-- Edward Lachman and Motorola team up for camphone documentaries

-- Motorola Street Stories

-- Filmmakers, advertisers rush to create content for cell phone screens

-- Lights, Mobile Phone, Action

-- Zoie Films sponsors it's first annual "Cellular Cinema Festival"

-- 10 Second Film Festival announces "Call for Entries"

-- World's Shortest Film Competition

-- Mobile Exposure

-- Orange seeks mobile filmmakers

-- 15-second films for Nokia 3650s entered in The Raindance Film Festival

-- World's Smallest Film Festival Showcased

March 4, 2005

Soapies the new mobile ring-ins

Australia's first mobile soap opera, is coming soon to a pocket near you as mobile phone carriers, media companies and television production houses vie for a share of the $1 billion mobile data market, reports The Australian.

"Random Place, based on a Friends-style Dutch mobile series called Jong Zuid, will launch on May 2 showcasing well-known actors, pop stars and sporting figures. The telcos are seeking to persuade young people to access dramatic entertainment while they're out and about.

Each episode - known as a mobisode - will comprise six still images of various characters complete with captions that reveal the storyline and may be downloaded on to any mobile network via a text link.

The Random Place launch sends a strong signal that the mobile phone is beginning to be seen as a personalised, broadcast-style medium".

Other mobile soaps:

-- Hollyoaks pushes mobile service with exclusive TV pics - Mersey TV, the maker of UK Channel 4's teen soap ' Hollyoaks', is hoping to cash in on the mobile text alert trend by offering subscribers unseen exerts of the show

-- Cellpop, The First Cell Phone Drama That is not for your Mama! Cellpop follows the lives of the people who make the hit music we listen to. Each day a new episode is delivered straight to your phone.

-- MMS Soap on Spanish Telefónica Móviles - Móviles has launched FanTESStic, an interactive series with real actors created exclusively for MMS

-- -- Launched on the Internet and closed in the late nineties, the Internet's first Soap, «The Spot» is back - on (Sprint) mobile phone.

-- «InYrShoes» - The plot of a UK soap called «InYrShoes» is not decided by scriptwriters, but by viewers sending text messages at the end of each episode, featuring a cliffhanger or dilemma.

-- Jong-Zuid: First picture soap opera for mobile phones The Netherlands came up with the first Picture Soap, Jong-Zuid, starring famous soap opera actors.

March 3, 2005

Celebs contribute to Mobile Moments Camera Phone Exhibition

generateImageFromDatabase.jpeg Mobile Moments Camera Phone Exhibition – is a collection of spontaneous images taken by top celebrities with their mobile phones as well as internationally respected photographers. [via Hello! magazine]

This interactive online gallery allows visitors to view over 200 camera phone images taken by leading artists and entertainers. And they can also upload their own phone pics and exhibite them alongside the celebs' efforts.

Personalities from Kate Moss to Nick Knight have contributed their megapixels to the Hewlett Packard initiative, which, as well as supplying an imaginative new take on how celebs see the world, will be raising funds for cancer care centres and the sharing of digital access worldwide via digital villages.

Click here for top 10 celebrity images - picture on the left was taken by world reknown photographer Nick Knight.

February 23, 2005

Sony Ericsson and Esteemed Photographer Robert Clark Embark on First Photojournalistic Study of North America Captured With a Camera Phone

RobertClarkwork.jpg Sony Ericsson today announced the kick-off of the Image America tour with award-winning photographer Robert Clark.

Clark will journey across North America, capturing spontaneous pictures with Sony Ericsson's S710a camera phone.

As a renowned photographer whose work has appeared on countless magazine and book covers, including National Geographic and Sports Illustrated, Clark is well known for his intimate and captivating photographs.

The Image America tour begins today as Clark leaves his hometown of New York City and ventures across the United States and into Canada. During the tour, Clark will make visits to over 25 states and countless cities and towns. [cf press release]

Left, recent work by Robert Clark. Uighur family offers up a traditional meal. Goa Chung, China

February 22, 2005

'Capture your imagination' with Nokia

nokiaimagine.jpg Nokia has launched 'Capture Your Imagination', a mobile imaging photo contest in India with a cash prize. The jury for the contest will comprise of eminent creative personalities who will judge the images received on picture quality, likeability and creativity.

The 'Capture your Imagination' contest is open to imaging phone users over 18 years of age. As part of this initiative, Nokia will organize mobile road shows, which will traverse through 10 cities in the country. These vans will be supplemented with 'Capture Your Imagination' booths, which will assist participants during the contest.

The contest will enable people to capture their best moments using Nokia camera phones and print them instantly. Nokia will also invite people to MMS their pictures to 5555 for participation in the contest, upload their pictures on the contest Nokia Image Webist or email to contest@nokiaimagine.in.

In addition to the grand finale, Nokia will give away imaging phones to most creative images during the contest. Participants sending the first 100 entries will win redeemable Kodak print coupons.

Australian Mobile Soap: «Girl Friday»

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Girl Friday is a mobile interactive drama from Australia. MMS Episodes are sent weekly on mobile phones (it's unclear whether they are video clips or just pictures).

The soap opera story line reflects the way devices (such as your mobile) are changing the way we communicate in everyday life. As Girlf Friday tries to deal with the sagas of career, love and family we journey with her as a friend and confidant. [via network_performance]

Synopsis

Girl Friday's life changes when she finds a mobile phone on a tram on the way to work. She soon becomes engaged in the mysterious life of the stranger's phone. All the while she has paper clip trouble at the office; is searching for the mother she never knew, and is clawing her way to the top of the local karaoke charts.

Other mobile soap operas:

-- Hollyoaks pushes mobile service with exclusive TV pics - Mersey TV, the maker of UK Channel 4's teen soap 'Hollyoaks ', is hoping to cash in on the mobile text alert trend by offering subscribers unseen exerts of the show.

-- Cellpop, The First Cell Phone Drama That is not for your Mama! Cellpop follows the lives of the people who make the hit music we listen to. Each day a new episode is delivered straight to your phone.

-- MMS Soap on Spanish Telefónica Móviles - Móviles has launched FanTESStic, an interactive series with real actors created exclusively for MMS

-- -- Launched on the Internet and closed in the late nineties, the Internet's first Soap, «The Spot» is back - on (Sprint) mobile phone.

-- «InYrShoes» - The plot of a UK soap called «InYrShoes» is not decided by scriptwriters, but by viewers sending text messages at the end of each episode, featuring a cliffhanger or dilemma.

-- Jong-Zuid: First picture soap opera for mobile phones The Netherlands came up with the first Picture Soap, Jong-Zuid, starring famous soap opera actors.

February 16, 2005

The Cellphone as Art Venue

PJ-AE214_phoneart02152005203058.jpg Louise Bourgeois, William Wegman, David Salle and Nam June Paik, world-renowned art innovators, have gained a new outlet for their video art: the cellphone. Nokia Corp., the Finnish phone maker, has commissioned a set of videos to be downloaded like ringtones and gazed upon whenever the spirit calls, reports the WSJ.

""So many stars make work that can rarely be seen," says Juha Hemanus, who is assembling the video art for Nokia in Helsinki. "This makes it possible to bring works by big names to cellphone users."

Owners of art-enabled phones can collect video originals from Nokia's Web site, www.nokia.com/art. (The site also has a list of phone models that are video-compatible.) Nokia won't say how much it pays the artists. For customers, the works are free.

The marketing artistry in cellphone art, though, is about exclusivity. Works can't be forwarded or copied, and come in limited editions of 3,000. A Web site counter clicks off each download.

Related:

-- In November 2003, See my SMS, a Paris based company run by Alexandra de Waresquiel, signed up over 25 contemporary artists, whose artwork could be downloaded onto cell phones; Jeanne SUSPLUGAS, Anne DELEPORTE, Sam SAMORE, Susan SHUP et François-xavier COURREGES all created original artwork for this project.