August 18, 2006

Mobile Phone Performances

thumb-AgoraII.jpg "Mobile phones give public space another dimension by adding a layer of communication and sound which innovative artists are turning into performance art", writes CScout looking back one mobile performances, such as Dialtones, a concert performed in 2001 entirely through the ringing of the audience's mobile phones at the Ars Electronica Festival and this year's updated version of AGORA, a 2005 performance in Williamsburg where the choreographer featured 60 dancers, plus participating audience

For this year's AGORA II people are invited "to not only bring their bodies to the performance, but also their cell phones", "to create a grand tableau - a city slice - a social experiment...

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