Playmobiel exhibition

Artists play with mobile phone technology

(via: we-make-money-not-art) The PLAYMOBIEL exhibition showcases artists whose work explores mobile phone technology in playful way. The casting is pretty impressive. Scanner composed music using tapped phone conversations; Blast Theory is famous for their mixed reality games; Arno Coenen designed a floor mosaic based on the interface of a Nokia telephone; Gerald Van Der Kaap handed out a mobile phone plus free minutes to a girl from Amsterdam to film and photograph herself; Leonard van Munster made a few hardware projects using the cell phone as a remote control device; Esther Polak uses GPS to visualise the tracks of people resulting in a drawing; together with twodotone, PIPS:lab developed a software for mobile phones that can scan drawings and transform them into beats; Aryan Kaganof shot a feature film on mobile phone cameras; Kate Pemberton designs logo’s and designs as wallpapers for the cell phone as well as cross stitching patterns; etc.

Playmobiel at Arti in Amsterdam, from June 10 till July 8 2006.

[ www.playmobiel.net ]

Research within the project Momeus and one of its applications deine-story.de of Fraunhofer IAIS – eCulture Factory and its partners.

Contact

* Prof. Monika Fleischmann, Fraunhofer IAIS und Hochschule Bremen * Wolfgang Strauss, Fraunhofer IAIS, Sankt Augustin