SMS and the arts
Research laboratories are the avant-garde art galleries of the twenty-first century. That shouldn't come as a surprise though. Art is a lens through which engineers can raise tough questions about the science fiction that they create, and we inhabit.
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Simple Text
SimpleTEXT is a collaborative audio/visual public performance that relies on audience participation through input from mobile devices such as phones, PDAs or laptops. SimpleTEXT focuses on dynamic input from participants as essential to the overall output. The performance creates a dialogue between participants who submit messages which control the audiovisual output of the installation.
Textually.org
A spectacular mobile phone operated light sculpture by a Penzance artist has become the centrepiece of a Cleveland town, according to the BBC. "Spectra-txt, unveiled in Middlesbrough last week, is 10 metres high and weighs a hefty two tonnes and incorporates a light show. And this is the clever bit: the steel tower has been designed to change colour when sent one of six special text message commands.
Helloworld
Send in your message, and see how it is projected by a laserbeam onto a mountain overlooking Ipanema Beach in Rio de Janeiro, onto the UN building in New York City, onto the most prominent building in downtown Mumbai or onto a 140 metre tall water fountain in Geneva. SAY IT NOW!
Amodalsuspension
"Amodal Suspension” was a large-scale interactive installation developed for the opening of the new Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM) in Japan. From the 1st to the 24th of November 2003 people could use this website to send short text messages to each other using a cell phone or web browser. However, rather than being sent directly, the messages were encoded as unique sequences of flashes with 20 robotically-controlled searchlights, turning the sky around the YCAM Center into a giant communication switchboard.
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