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

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.

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.

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
 

Title
Phone Flora

Medium
jpeg wallpaper for mobile phone

Status
For more information see
www.annadumitriu.com
www.normalflora.co.uk

Artist
Anna Dumitriu

Bio
Anna Dumitriu is an artist whose work is heavily inspired by science, in particular medical science and the concept of immortality. The work looks closely at cell biology and the use of supplements to prolong life with recent paintings looking at the Vitamin C molecule. Anna uses an extensive range of materials and techniques including mixed media on canvas, watercolour, and digital or traditional printmaking.

A series of wallpapers based on light micrographs of bacteria and mould spores found on mobile phones during normal everyday use shown at 1000x magnification. These are part of a major sci-art collaboration lead by artist Anna Dumitriu entitled The Normal Flora project, which involves culturing bacteria and moulds from the artist’s domestic environment, a multimedia installation is planned for 2006.

For more information see www.annadumitriu.com.

Title
CITYSNAPPER_Game

Medium
HARDWARE: PC computer, mobile phones, SMS web servers
SOFTWARE: windows 2000 operating system, self programmed 3D-SMS interface + Vir-tools for the web.

Status
Project will take place in Brussels in June 2005
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Artist
soon from Hong Kong, China

Bio
soon has been working in the digital mobile industry for more than 3 years, including CSL (a pioneer in the mobile communications market in Hong Kong with both 3G and EDGE network) and PEOPLES (first PCS operator to launch service in Hong Kong ). During these years, she gained extensive product and technical knowledge in mobile media especially in entertainment and lifestyle projects. She is involved in launching several commercial services including Video surveillance, multimedia content download, mobile commerce and video streaming, massaging etc. For more details, please visit www.soooon.com

Soon is interested in arts, design and technology. In this new regime of digitalization, different media interface are being used in communicating different purposes and messages, this inspired her exploration and examination of possibilities of media arts through mobile, internet and video as interface.

Project Information
There are many beautiful scenes happen day by day, it is not easily capture the right thing at the right moment with the right equipment. Mobile device becomes more powerful and popular nowadays, it is not only a device for telephony, but for entertainment as well. Thunderstorm happened suddenly one day when I was on a taxi on the way back home. When you look outside, raining created different visual effect especially with the mobile device ‘raw’ effect and feeling. This is a documentary mobile video to show the beauty of thunderstorm.

Artist E-mail Address : soon@soooon.com

Title
CITYSNAPPER_Game

Medium
HARDWARE: PC computer, mobile phones, SMS web servers
SOFTWARE: windows 2000 operating system, self programmed 3D-SMS interface + Vir-tools for the web.

Status
Project will take place in Brussels in June 2005
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Artist
Collaboration project from LAb[au] and iMAGE z[ONE] - Olivier Vanderaa.

Bio
About LAb[au]
The development of the “sPACE, navi-gable music” application by Lab[au] in the past few years lead to the elaboration of new performative 3D environments and many possibilities of collaboration. Among others, like for instance INFO.SCAPES_ INFOR-MATION SOCIETY, an interactive 3D hyper-textu(r)al interface designed for the European Commission to display the poli-tics of the EU commission in the field of IC technologies (see www.lab-au.com/files/doc/eu.htm), the CITYSNAP-PER_Game project uses properties of 3D electronic environments to create a spacial navigation through collected data.

About iMAGE z[ONE] - Olivier Vanderaa
Mainly focusing on contemporary western society, and particularly urban structures and cultures, leaning on a documentary base, Olivier Vanderaa started in early 2002 a reflexion on the nature of the city, considering it as the result of the interaction of two processes: a physical construction (urbanization) as well as a mental (space representation, social context) one. Naturally came the question of how to map these characteristics: in that matter, new media seemed to be appropriate tools, for they allow to easily index the collected data, to interface them with the user (notably through hypertext links), and because the web medium permits to keep a trace of the work and thus draw a comparison between various urban contexts. More information can be seen at www.o-vanderaa.com/citysnapper_gamez.

Project Information

• A real time interactive game for the contemporary metropolitan space, using an online 3D interface with a modeling of the city, SMS server technology and digital photography.
• Members of the audience - players - use SMS to:
• 1. send physically photographer to a part of town to bring back a picture of it
  2. orientate the shooting with additionnal verbal instructions (word, sentence, riddle)
  3. react later on to the picture taken, to mark their satisfaction/unsatisfaction.
• Photographer takes a picture with a cell phone and implements the interface via SMS.
• The audience can follow the game :
• 1. through the online 3D interface, from a home computer
  2. by navigating the 3D modeling of the city screened in the exhibition space, where a physical exhibition is being built.
• The game ends with a closing event, where players can retrieve a print of the image they gave birth to.

LAb[au]
Collaborative agency for inFORMational projects and Metadesign.
Rue de laeken, 104
B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
Tel: +32 2 219 65 55
lab-au@lab-au.com
http://www.lab-au.com

Olivier Vanderaa,
Photographer.
Rue Edouard Michiels, 35
B-1180 Brussels, Belgium
Tel+Fax: +32 2 376 98 98
game@o-vanderaa.com
www.o-vanderaa.com

Title
Feecal and Friends

Medium
Illustrations, Animated Images

Status
Any Series 60 Nokia phone. (176×208) or
Macromedia Flash Lite enabled phone.

Download Feecal and Friends.

Artist
James R Ford

Bio
Ford is a multi-media artist currently based in London, England. He has co-written and illustrated the book House Gymnastics, had work commissioned for the permanent collection at the Swedish Museum of Modern Art, was nominated for the British Art Show 6, and has received a number of grants from Arts Council England. Ford will be attending postgraduate study in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London, during 2004/2005.

Project Information
James Robert Ford has stated that his works are concerned with “the morality of idiocy”. Projects and investigations based around observations, process and play. Crossing-over web/digital with the physical manifestation of the art and often involving the everyday, so as to tap-in to our collective memory/consciousness. He has used mucus, Teletext, home exercise and car number plates as sources of inspiration and material for constructing the works. Combining nostalgic/childhood visual references & ideas with humour, personal narrative and contemporary issues.

For further information visit www.littlechocolatestarfish.com.

Title
Wall Paper Video

Medium
Video Wall Paper, VTRACK / ArtMatic

Status
PDA Version 240 x 320
Blueraytel
Tpaperlight

Artist
Eric Pajot

Bio
Erci Pajot was born in 1966. After a degree in graphic design and cinema decor(set), Eric trained himself on digital imaging softwares and worked for several years as a graphic artist and as an artistic director in several industries: multimedia, internet and magazines.

Additionally, in 1992 Eric created with a friend a radioshow “Radiomentale” which was broadcasted on Radio FG (Paris), in Swissland and Tokyo. This radioshow has now evolved into a “sound creation duo” covering different aspects from sound design to mixing, djing and composition.

“Always divided between my graphical work and music, thanks to the DVD, I’m now able to reunite theses two passions”.

Project Information
With the increasing number of flat screen TV sets, the television as an object, can now be regarded as an artful display, an item designed to fit a decoration or an environment.

Thus the idea of creating a brand new type of programmes, an alternative to classical TV programmes, is an interesting concept. It would enable to associate appearance and substance in order to transform the television into an harmonious object.

TV sets can now be used as a vivid video painting which can be either ignored or hypnotizing. They can be an esthetical entity matching the user’s mood, an interior design or a type of screen .

The video wall paper are currently available on demand. Previews are a accessible on www.laptoplove.org.
Several editorial projects are in development, and a series of 6 videos have been released for the FIAC 2004, at the gallery.

For additional information visit:
www.laptoplove.org
www.disc-over.org
www.radiomentale.com
www.plastic-tv.com

Title
iCU

Medium
Flash

Name of device:
iPod, high end cell phones and mobile device that support Flash Lite.

Status
Viewable at:
www.ramieblatt.com

Artist
Ramie Blatt

Bio
Ramie Blatt was born in Montreal, Canada, in 1966. He graduated with a degree in physics from McGill University and later studied anthropology and fine arts. Ramie has built a career as a multimedia and software developer while also exploring many interests: nature, travel, humanitarianism, writing, meditation, yoga, filmmaking and art. He has lived in and experienced diverse landscapes and scenes in the Americas, Australia, Oceania, Europe and Asia. Ramie now lives in Miami with his wife, Kaylin; they are expecting twins.

Project Information
“I See(the) You” is an interactive artificial life installation, currently showing at “MOVING IMAGE: Video, Animation and Software Art” at Alonso Art Gallery in Miami, to November 25, 2006.

This is a Flash-based installation with video camera. It generates hundreds of ants that swarm randomly. Occasionally, they swarm into a pattern, tracing out the viewer’s face. The image soon fades and the ants swarm again.

A small scale version of this piece called “iCU” for mobile devices (iPod, cell phone) will react instead to any image selected, such as from a cell phone’s camera.

A demo of “iCU” is available at my artist web site, using my own image.
www.ramieblatt.com

Artist E-mail Address:
ramie@ramieblatt.com