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Shoot me if you can

vtanni — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 15:59:47 +0000

Shoot me if you can is an urban game inspired by first person shooting online video game. Replace gun with fun, and shoot the opponent team with a cellular phone equipped with a digital camera. Participants shooters are given team color and phone number printed on the sticker. Shooters are ought to take a picture of the opponent team. If successful, she/he sends the picture to the opponent team member, via multimedia SMS system.
Different rules exist for variations in game. Tactics is important part as well as team work and understanding of the urban environment. This work is a commentary on abundance of digital image in our culture, desire to photograph and violence of surveillance camera. Active public participation in encouraged through website and the game.

www.shootmeifyoucan.net

Mobotag

vtanni — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 16:19:48 +0000

Mobotag, by Marta Lwin, reveals the hidden layers of a city through an active exchange of location based media and text messages via the cellphone. It’s collaborative phone tagging of the city. Part virtual graffiti, part walking tour, “mobotag” creates a spontaneous and easy way for tagging a neighborhood via the cellphone. Send and view messages, images, videos and sounds…

See art, read stories, and watch a hidden layer of the city reveal itself. Respond with your media and participate in the creative expression and mapping of your neighborhood. By sending a text message to “mobotag”, with your city location, you begin an interactive tour of a neighborhood. Using a unique geocoding feature, “mobotag” tells you what other messages exist in your local area. In the near future “mobotag” will also feature art projects including “flyHere,” a mobile phone audio installation featuring native bird calls; “bugBytes,” collectible graphical bugs originating at major telecoms around NYC; and “lookHere,” a written work in short form by a native NY writer.

“mobotag” is a 2006 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with funding from the Jerome Foundation.
http://turbulence.org/Works/mobotag

Servizi…sociali

vtanni — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:36:55 +0000

Come superare l’imbarazzo di trovarsi soli e disorientati nel bel mezzo di un evento mondano? La soluzione, per non sembrare “socially disconnected”, potrebbe essere simulare una stimolante conversazione telefonica. Per aiutare le persone intente in questa operazione, oggi c’è un servizio. Si chiama You’re kidding me?! (mi stai prendendo in giro?) ed è un numero di telefono. Dopo aver chiamato, l’utente può scegliere se inscenare una conversazione informale oppure seriosa e importante. A quel punto, il sistema suggerirà passo passo tutte le frasi da pronunciare per rendere il tutto assolutamente credibile. Il servizio prende spunto da un’opera concettuale di Sebastian Campion ed è messo a disposizione dallo studio di design 1508 A/S di Copenhagen.

You’re kidding me?!
Dialogue
1508 A/S

(re)distribution: wireless art

vtanni — Sat, 11 Aug 2001 17:55:15 +0000

C’era da aspettarselo: l’arte digitale arriva anche senza cavi, dovunque voi siate, grazie a cellulari, Palmtop e PDA. (re)distribution, una mostra on line in corso su voyd.com esplora le possibilità di un’arte nomade e “portatile”. Curata da Patrick Lichty, l’esposizione sarà in rete fino al 31 ottobre e comprende, tra gli altri, lavori di Mark America, Alex Galloway, John Simon, Giselle Beiguelman. (v.t.)

http://www.voyd.com/ia