Bu.je.mu: A Student project from Paul Notzold's "All things mobile phone" class

Bu.je.mu is a project created by Kimba Kerner & Yudi Rusdia for Paul Notzold's all things mobile phone class, Me & My Mobile, at Parsons the New School for Design, in the Design and Technology program. It offers to bring different religions together in the form of advice from spiritual advisors Buddha, Jesus, and Mohammed. The project allows people to experience what these three religions have to say about different issues. From May 30th til June 6th, you can get advice on your most pressing questions by simply sending an SMS to +1-646-238-1806. The answer can be be from any of the three religious figures and it may not be what you expect. permalink (May 30th, 2007)

Paul Notzold street performance projecting in Rome

Paul Notzold's latest projecting, from his Rome trip. Rome-ing Charges : 4 nights 4 interactive projections around Rome. As part of the Urban Portraits project Paul Notzold and Fabio Compagna put up SMS enabled speech bubbles all over Rome, ending the tour with a projection on the Colosseum. Many more photos at www.txtualhealing.com. Fabio arranged electricity from a restaurant across the street from the Colloseum and we threw a bubble up. Besides the bus pulling up and 'beamer blocking' about every 15 minutes the bubble was legible from about 50 yards away and through street lights. I was using a 3500 Lumens projector. At the end of the night I took all the messages received and ran them through TXT-A-Sketch to create a line art interpretation of all the messages received... permalink (March 21st, 2007)

TXTual Healing on a road trip for Obama

Paul Notzold is kicking off an interactive projection roadtrip with TXTual Healing for Barack Obama. 10 nights, 10 cities, and 4 states. After doing an amazing job of registering voters, Obama’s people wanted to drum up excitement to actually get people to the polls with some TXTual Healing up until election day. Paul will be updating the site with photos and video from the road. permalink (October 25th, 2008)

Send a quick txt to the pigeons

From next month, you can watch your words go up in smoke as part of an art installation in London's Trafalgar Square. [via The Guardian] Called Memory Cloud, the work by architects/designers Stephen and Theodore Spyropoulos will, over three evenings in October, create a huge cloud of smoke on to which the artists will project messages sent by members of the public via text message. Those of a sensitive disposition may need to look away - all the messages will be projected uncensored. Its' first performance was in Bristol in June 2007, called Smoke Signals. Related: -- Paul Notzold's Txtual Healing performances around the world. -- The HelloWorld Project - text messages were projected by a laser beam on mountains and buildings in several cities in 2003 -- Hello Mr President - A laser projector beamed messages onto the snow during the Davos WEF summit in 2001 permalink (September 18th, 2008)

Txt of the Lliving Dead - An Interactive Graphic Story

What would you say if Zombies were chasing you? With TXT of the Living Dead, Paul Notzold (TXTual Healing) takes the classic horror flick Night of the Living Dead and turns it into an interactive graphic story. Using text messaging an audience re-writes the movie by creating their own dialogue. This project along with the public projections will appear in Los Angeles September 13 - 16 as part of Wired Nextfest. Other works by Paul Notzold permalink (September 3rd, 2007)

Participate in Roam-mania!

Paul Notzold is on the road again with TXTual Healing. On the night of June 6th at 9:30 pm Bucharest time (2:30 pm in NYC), TXTual Healing will be projected on a small street corner in Bucharest. To post a message from outside Romania send an SMS to: +40743344253 (include the + or it won't work) Paul writes: "Recently Accepted into the EU, Romania was already undergoing tremendous development. Everyone I have met has been beautiful and in tune with the world around them. Little is relayed about what is going on this part of the world, they want to be brought up to speed, but also wary of what development can mean to the loss of affordable housing and ownership of the streets. Wish them luck in their protection of public space and hopefully the ability to fight the disney-fication of their culture, or at least say hi from your part of the world. The happening has been arranged through the Streetwise Gallery. At the same gallery at 8 pm I will be giving a talk on mobile phones, invented reality and public space interventions... check out the gallery site for more information. Please don't spam the bubbles with URL's and any hate speech..." permalink (June 5th, 2007)

Dear Diary, - semacode t-shirts

The second student project presented from Paul Notzold's Me & My Mobile class at Parsons the New School for Design is by Julia Vallera, called Dear Diary,. Julia has created semacode t-shirts with entries from her diary that people can purchase and wear in public. She will also make custom shirts with your own diary entry. http://juliavallera.com/diary.html. In her own words: All the QR codes used in this project are excerpts from my diary. I printed them on tee shirts and bags knowing they would be seen by hundreds of people. The idea of presenting something as private as a diary to the public in a code that requires specific technology to read is a contradiction. The message here is still private to a certain level, but presented in a very public way. Other Me & My Mobile project so far: - Bu.je.mu permalink (June 1st, 2007)

Drip TXT

Tag like a pro from your mobile phone! Using a projector, a computer, and a homemade mobile SMS gateway, watch as your projected text message is spelled out in the digitally captured writing style of NYC Graffiti Artist Jesus Saves. Don't use your mobile phone to escape your surroundings, use it to engage it and speak out. Created by Paul Notzold and Adam Chapman. More photos and info at... TXTual Healing permalink (May 2nd, 2007)

TXT-A-Sketch

Paul Notzold, working with Federico Hatoum, have been working on a community drawing tool that allows you to use SMS to draw on buildings. The piece will debut in the Streets of Rome, Italy from March 1 - 3. TXTual Healing and TXT-A-Sketch will both be on view as part of the Urban Portraits show at rialtosantambrogio.org. [Wooster Collectible via Eyebeam Reblog] In their own words: Send a txt message and the system turns pairs of letters into points, and then lines connect the points. It's an X & Y axis using the alphabet to make coordinates... The whole thing is projected onto a building facade. See what your name looks like, or get creative and draw objects and symbols. permalink (February 21st, 2007)

Cell Phone: Art and the Mobile Phone

Artists are discovering the aesthetic potential of cell phones writes the Baltimore Sun, reporting on a cell phone exhibit showing at Maryland's Contemporary Museum. "Cell Phone: Art and the Mobile Phone explores some of the groundbreaking works that are being created by artists today using cell phone technologies. These works engage such features and technologies as camera phones, video phones, global positioning systems, Bluetooth technology, ring tone sounds, and messaging. Cell Phone features an international group of over 30 artists and artist collectives representing the range of artworks being created with and for a mobile phone device. Some of the works in Cell Phone take the form of a sculptural object, like Beatrice Valentine Amrhein’s Videos Lustre (2006) which features dozens of cell phones hanging from the ceiling like a chandelier (picture left), each running a short film on the cell phone’s screen. Other works, like TXTual Healing (2002-2007) by Paul Notzold, or cell:block (2007) by the artist collective URBANtells, invite the audience to contribute content to a work through text messages or photos sent from their cell phones. Another category of works in the exhibition include those that involve downloading a program, a video, or an image to your mobile device. Angie Waller’s clip.fm, for example, expands the communicative possibilities of cell phones through a series of narrative animations that can be downloaded and sent to friends instead of a text message. Other works like Mark Shepard’s Tactical Sound Garden (2004-2006) or Blast Theory’s Uncle Roy All Around You (2003) introduce software to a mobile device that allows audience members to participate with others in an interactive performance. Making a call from a cell phone will connect visitors with yet another group of works in the exhibition. Talking on a cell phone while walking through Informationlab’s room-sized installation Cell Phone Disco (2006), for example, will make visible the aura of an active cell phone’s signal by creating a trace of blinking lights on the gallery walls. In other works, a phone number will be given to access pieces such as Steve Bradley’s Call & Response: HydroSistrum which willnvite visitors to dial a number to listen to data related to the ecology of the Chesapeake Bay, including information about water quality, currents, and temperature. Related -- Information Lab -- Suite.tekora.com permalink (January 21st, 2007)

Cell Phone: Art and the Mobile Phone

Cell Phone: Art and the Mobile Phone , at the the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, will explore some of the groundbreaking works that are being created by artists today using cell phone technologies. These works engage such features and technologies as camera phones, video phones, GPS, Bluetooth, ringtones, and messaging. Cell Phone features 30 artists and artist collectives representing the range of artworks being created with and for a mobile phone device. Some of the works in Cell Phone take the form of a sculptural object, like Beatrice Valentine Amrhein’s Videos Lustre which features dozens of cell phones hanging from the ceiling like a chandelier, each running a short film on the cell phone’s screen. Other works, like TXTual Healing by Paul Notzold, or cell:block by URBANtells, invite the audience to contribute content to a work through SMS or photos sent from their cell phones. Another category of works include those that involve downloading a program, a video, or an image to your mobile device. Angie Waller’s clip.fm, for example, expands the communicative possibilities of cell phones through a series of narrative animations that can be downloaded and sent to friends instead of a text message. Other works like Mark Shepard’s Tactical Sound Garden or Blast Theory’s Uncle Roy All Around You allows audience members to participate with others in an interactive performance. Making a call from a cell phone will connect visitors with yet another group of works in the exhibition. Talking on a cell phone while walking through Informationlab’s room-sized installation Cell Phone Disco, for example, will make visible the aura of an active cell phone’s signal by creating a trace of blinking lights on the gallery walls. In other works, a phone number will be given to access pieces such as Steve Bradley’s Call & Response: HydroSistrum which will invite visitors to dial a number to listen to data related to the ecology of the Chesapeake Bay, including information about water quality, currents, and temperature. The exhibition runs January 21 - April 22, 2007. permalink (January 3rd, 2007)

"Fear Fighter"

'Fear Fighter' is an interactive street projection. Asking the question, "What are you afraid of?" You text message your fears to the displayed number and they appear in his thoughts as he guns them down. It's the latest txt message enabled street performance by Paul Notzold. [via Wooster Collective] Related: - TXTual healing permalink (October 12th, 2006)

TXTual healing

TXTual healing by Paul Notzold uses a cell phone a computer and a projector to create a mobile public performance by posting a person's text messages into speech bubbles that are strategically placed on the facades of buildings." [via networked performance] Using 'always on' technology, cell phones with SMS messaging allow an audience to interact with large speech bubbles projected onto a flat surface, like the facade of a building. The bubbles are positioned near windows and doors to encourage an audience to create the conversations happening inside. The audience receives a flyer with the number and simple instructions. A participant sends a text message to the provided phone number and it is then displayed inside the speech bubble. Multiple bubbles may be used and the audience can direct their input to a specific bubble. permalink (May 14th, 2006)