Michelle Adolfs & Petra Mueller

Title
DEEP-CLAPS

Medium
Creative Zen Vision:M and iPod V
The clips with 30sec playtime are available in 352 x 288 pixels as mpeg1-files (*.mpg) and wmv-files (*.wmv) and in 320 x 240 pixels as mpeg4-files (*.mp4).

Status
For more information see
www.kunstkommt.de
www.deep-claps.de.

Artist
atelier KUNSTKOMMT!
Michelle Adolfs & Petra Mueller

Bio
Michelle Adolfs (*1972) and Petra Mueller (*1969) work as visual artists and social scientists by the name of atelier KUNSTKOMMT!. The German artists team concentrates mainly on the impact of digital media on everyday life culture in images and values. Since 1996 they explore forms of media communication and their relationships to materiality. The art works originate in multiple formats including the web, installation, video, performance, photography, painting, objects. Their website www.kunstkommt.de presents current projects as well as an archive of previous works.

Project Information:
The webvideo project “deep-claps” is a download platform with video clips about aphorisms as cultural shared wisdom. Everyone knows some — aphorisms are used almost inflationary. As a central part of our culture aphorisms are an indicator of meaning and thinking in society. There are some very deep and dark tellings, which play diffuse roles in everyday communication.

We are searching for emotional ambivalences in the combination of word and image. The globalization with a simple English translation of words forces an isolation from cultural references and meanings. In short video clips the metaphors of mostly German aphorisms are transferred into absurd scenes. What is in these thoughts with so called “deep” truth?

The clips are published as edition online via www.deep-claps.de. With a “download and send to a friend” they travel around the world …

Krista Connerly

Title
Weather-Call Service V.2

Medium
Macromedia Flash, Internet, Cell-phone

Status
Movie for a mobile device.
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Artist
Krista Connerly

Bio
What forms of intimacy take place in the city? How can poetry replace efficiency? These questions drive the work of new media artist and poetic sociographer Krista Connerly. To investigate these questions Connerly works in a variety of media including the internet, video, photography, and sound. However, through whatever media she uses, Connerly seeks to turn “art viewer” into collaborator, provoking forms of interaction that through humor and poetry temporarily override the efficiency and rationality of contemporary life. Her work has been featured in a range of international venues, including, the WOW Women’s International Film Festival in Sydney, Australia, the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, the New Museum’s online art community Rhizome and its Net Art News, The Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Michigan, Cultronix, online journal of art and culture and the Next Wave Festival in Melbourne, Australia where it won a BifTek Wink Award.

Project Information
Weather-Call Service offers a mobile weather activation service provided through cell-phone text messaging. The system gives up to date instructions on how to interact with and create weather systems. Responses from participants, including text messages and cell-phone photos can be sent directly from their phone to our weather map, creating a dynamic picture of how participants are using their weather instructions. for more visit:
urbanintimacy.org/weathercall/
Version 2 of this project will include a different way of visualizing the information on the weather map. It is not yet complete.

Artist E-mail Address
krista@urbanintimacy.org.

For additional information visit
urbanintimacy.org
urbanintimacy.org/krista

G.H. Hovagimyan

Title
RANTAPOD

Medium
Video.

Status
Video iPod
RANTAPOD
Ipod - rss feed Podcast Feed

Artist
G.H. Hovagimyan

Bio
G.H. Hovagimyan is an experimental artist working in a variety of forms. He was one of the first artists in New York to start working with the Internet in the early nineties. His work ranges from hypertext works to digital performance art and installations. His collaborative work, with Peter Sinclair, A SoaPOPera for Laptops was recently in an exhibition at the Jeu De Paume Museum in Paris. He has a podcast called Art Dirt Redux that is in the top 10 of art podcasts in the U.S.

He has contributed articles to Leonardo the Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, and Intelligent Agent an online journal about new media discourse.

His digital work is in the collections of The Walker Art Center and The Whitney Museum of American Art.

Project Information
rantapod is a video meditation. It talks about art, politics and philosophy. It contains 3 minute rants or ruminations by G.H. Hovagimyan. It is highly experimental in it’s discussion and outlook. Contrary to Post Modernism’s simulation and irony this is a serious ongoing investigation. It strips away all artifice and presents a minimal/punk video discourse. The series is an outgrowth or continuation of GH’s conceptual and network performance starting in the 1970’s. It also refines and extends the concerns of his 21st century performances such as: Palm Rants and rant/ rant back/ back rant.

For additional information visit
spaghetti.nujus.net/rantapod/

Flo Heiss

Artist
Flo Heiss

Bio
Bavarian born Flo Heiss is Creative Partner Dare (daredigital.com) in London. Flo studied design in Augsburg, Germany, where he won the Erasmus scholarship to the Institute of Art in Urbino, Italy. A further two years spent at the Royal College of Art led to an M.A. in graphic design. His personal work can be found on floheiss.com.

Medium
Stylus and Jotter application

Name of device:
Sony Ericsson P800

Status
More Info at:
floheiss.com

Jon Montenegro

TITLE
A Red Day

FORMAT
Macromedia Flash for PocketPC

STATUS
View Project

ARTIST
Jon Montenegro

BIO
Jon Montenegro is an Artist and Art Director from Allentown, PA. After attending Temple University, Tyler School of Art, he has been involved in several collaborative art and design projects. Serving as Art Director at www.variousways.com.

INFORMATION
The project is an explorative minimal art piece for mobile devices. The art piece is ever changing and also functional as a time piece. By using hues of red with dynamically changing sizes and transparencies, users can learn to time just by quickly glancing at the colors.

Other works can be seen at:
deus-ex-machina.tv
startmobile.com
variousways.com
Helio Gallery
WEB DESIGN: STUDIOS Book

Katie Lips

TITLE
160

MEDIUM
SMS messages, iPod

STATUS
160 - Viewing the Artwork 

1. Download the ZIP file fromhttp://www.kisky.co.uk/160/160.zip
2. Unzip the contents (you will have a folder called 160).
3. Enable disk use for your iPod using iTunes.
4. Connect your iPod.
5. Copy the SMS folder to your iPod’s Notes folder.
6. For more instructions go to Extras -> Notes on your iPod.

ARTIST

Katie Lips

BIO
Katie Lips has worked with Netmedia for several years having a traditional arts background with diverse skills across digital arts and creative commerce. Educated at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, and DeMontfort University, she has developed a strong interest in user interaction in mobile spaces. 

Katie’s work with Digital media is centred around the concept of the ‘user as content creator’, the notion that we all create art and communications without necessarily trying. Katie uses technology to capture these streams of consciousness and to display them offering new views on the personal private mobile world. 

160 Project Description 

160 is an archive of 160 SMS messages that I have treasured in the past 18 months. These messages, of up to 160 characters each have been sent to me from my boyfriend, sister, parents, and friends, from phone companies and people offering me SMS porn. 

The messages are unedited, a snapshot of what people have been sending me, telling me, asking me. These are my messages, but not my messages, they are not what I have written, but what I have collected, and chosen to keep. These things mean something to me, as do so many messages to so many people. 

Whilst we know what we send by SMS, and we know what we receive, we do not have any idea what other people get, how other people compose messages; we have no view into other people’s phones. As a Digital Artist, I was keen to explore this with the development of treasuremytext (www.treasuremytext.com). This project ‘160′ is 160 of my messages stored on treasuremytext. It is a snapshot made available for anyone else to browse how they choose, to make their own judgements about me, my text life, and the people who send me messages. 

Most of us have to delete SMS messages we have received from our phones, this collection demonstrates the powerful nature both in the important messages and the mundane ones that can be tracked back over an extended period of time. Without treasuring these messages they would have been lost, but now have a new life as a text archive which can live away from the mobile phone. 

The availability of messages for others to take away using their iPod offers people voyeuristic opportunities to explore the content of this work, to try to construct their own stories around the messages they find, to identify their own meaning to build their own picture of those whose mobile lives have touched mine. Much of the content of my messages is humorous, throw away, perhaps pointless; this hints at what the rest of us carry around in our pockets but never show anyone else. 

Whilst it is possible to get content off a phone onto a computer, or onto a website, this project extends the possibilities for viewing mobile art by making this content available on iPod. iPod is used as the viewing device, offering greater control for the audience. The use of iPod also raises questions about ownership of artistic content, each user creates a new version by the act of downloading and viewing the work.

Dean Keep

Title
Missing Emily

Medium
Digital film (3gp)

Status
Quicktime movie for a mobile device.
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Artist
Dean Keep

Bio
Dean Keep is a filmmaker / photographer using digital media technologies to develop new narrative strategies. Dean recently received a grant to create a project for Telstra’s upcoming launch of the Australian 3G mobile network. He was also a selected participant of the Sydney Mobile Movie Master Class presented by U.K. creatives Fee Plumley and Ben Jones of the-phone-book Limited.

Dean is currently developing an episodic drama, that will be delivered to viewers via the wireless device/ mobile phone. He believes the convergence of new media and communication technologies offers visual artists the chance to extend their arts practice, whilst offering viewers the opportunity to participate in a more personalised interactive experience.

Henry Reichhold

TITLE
Free Run Exhibition

MEDIUM
mobile phone

STATUS
For more information visit
Free Run Nokia Video

Also visit:
www.reichholdarts.com
urbanfreeflow
www.reichholdarts.com/nokia.html

ARTIST
Henry Reichhold

BIO
Henry Reichhold
Photographer/digital artist
DOB 11/12/ 1953

Previous Solo Exibitions:
English National Ballet and London exhibitions at the Royal Albert Hall
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
Theatre museum 2001
london colliseum 2000
Gantry arts center 2002

Group shows:
Photographers Gallery
Association Gallery
Global Cafe

Recent main Exhibitions
‘who needs sleep’ Loading bay gallery 2002
Hungerford bridge exhibition 2003
Tower Bridge panoramic exhibition 2004
Nokia mean fiddler exhibition 2004
Aim 6 - armory arts center in Los Angeles 2005

Forthcomming Exhibitions
FreeRun at Cargo 2005
Gatwick Airport (massive panoramic exhibition) 2006

Sponsors have included , HP, Kodak and Canon 
Please see www.reichholdarts.com for samples of work. 

PROJECT INFORMATION
“London based artist called Henry Reichhold, who has been shooting video action and photo stills of the Seidojin team in action. At last, the project (sponsored by Nokia) is about to draw to an end with some unique work in the bag and all of it being shot using mobile phone technology. An exhibition is now in place to showcase it all.”
- urbanfreeflow

Date - 29th of November. 2005
Time - 6.30pm.
Location - Cargo, 83 Rivington Street,
London, EC2A 3AY.
For more information visit www.reichholdarts.com.

Kate Pemberton

TITLE
EMS (Edition Message Samplers)

MEDIUM
WAP technology, Pixel Graphics, Cross-Stitch

STATUS
All Nokia mobile phones. WAP enabled mobile Phones. ems.endfile.com

ARTIST
Kate Pemberton

BIO
My practice addresses the cultural effects that technology has on society. My current interest is in the status of craft objects in an age of electronic consumerist culture. I identify crossovers between computer graphics, and craft techniques, and explore these by making tangible art objects. 

My latest projects suggest an emotive, quirky, humorous aspect of functional computer graphics and of electronic devices by drawing parallels between their form and function and the techniques and meanings embraced in traditional needle crafts. 

I concern myself with the visual appeal of machines and electronics. I am interested in how they are considered as objects of desire, in terms of their fabrication, capabilities, and the status they give the individuals that own them. 

The catalogue section of http://endfile.com has visual and written reference to my Individual projects.

Jon Montenegro

Title
Kamon & Chiburi

Medium
Macromedia Flash Lite
Cell Phone Signals

Status
Series 60, Flash Lite 1.0, 2.0
Limited Editions, contact
info@s19.com

Artist
Jon Montenegro

Bio
Jon Montenegro is an Interactive Artist/Art Director from Allentown, PA. After attending Temple University, Tyler School of Art, he has been involved in several collaborative art and design projects.

He has been a web site critique contributor for Cre@te Online Magazine. He has contributed collaborative work for Born Magazine, an experimental venue marrying literary arts and interactive media and has participated in The Mobile Phone Photo Show (MPPS), where participants from around the world to send in photographs taken with their mobile phones. Recently his work has been featured in TASCHEN’s book WEB DESIGN: STUDIOS, “displaying 90 of the most prominent interactive studios worldwide…”

Project Information
Kamon
Kamon is a Macromedia Flash Lite interactive art piece created specifically for Mobile phones. Based from traditional Japanese kamons the artwork constantly displays a unique composition based on the mobile phone’s reception signal.

Chiburi
Chiburi is a Macromedia Flash Lite artwork interactive piece created specifically for Mobile phones. Inspired by Muso Shin Ryu movements, the artwork generates circular compositions based on cellphone input.

Others prints and mobile artwork can be seen at:
Helio Art Gallery
Start Mobile