February 3, 2007
'Cell Phone': Art in the Palm of Your Hand
Michael O'Sullivan for The Washington Post writes up "Cell Phone Disco" and other exhibits, part of the Cell Phone: Art and the Mobile Phone, an exhibition organized by the Contemporary Museum and held in Baltimore from January 21 to April 22 which 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 Disco," by the Amsterdam-based collaborative Informationlab allows viewers to use their cellphones' signal strength to control hundreds of lights.
"Using your cellphone's signal strength to activate panels studded with hundreds of red LEDs, "Disco" creates a visual metaphor for the invisible technology that follows us seemingly everywhere.
But my real tech-lust came while watching some of the micro-mini-videos commissioned, starting in 2004, by Nokia, the cellphone giant and -- no surprise -- one of the show's sponsors. Participants in the "Connect to Art" initiative include such art stars as William Wegman and David Salle, but I especially liked the interpretive dances to anger, love, joy, sorrow and fear featured in Finnish artist Kati Aberg's little clips (free and downloadable to your mobile phone, like the others, from http://www.nokia.com/art/mobile)."
Previously: - Cell Phone Art and the Mobile Phone
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