Week 3 - Looking at Mobile Phone Art

We carry our mobile phones with us everywhere, why not use them as tools for creating digital art. As with sleepyurbanite, a Chicargo musician/artist has done, capturing her daily life on her mobile phone. An idea which appeals to me for my final project. I have decided to collect resources of all kinds that represents The Arthouse, a live music venue which is threatening to shut down due to new liquor licensing laws. The Arthouse has been a home, workplace, music venue and a family to me for 5 years, only a quarter of the time it has been established, so you can imagine how The Arthouse has impacted musicians and people over the 19yrs.


Bluetooth is a convenient method for transferring and sharing digital art, i found it intriguing to create artworks in Adobe Illustrator to then transfer to mobile phones. I have discovered there are so many options with mobile phone to experiment with.
Adobe Illustrator, Go to Mobile and devices document. Online library - find sony ericsson model. New Document, tick custom size for all selected devices, content type - choose, then click on CREATE. Save as SVG compressed. Bluetooth icon select send file.

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"The Only Centainity, Death and TXT's is another digital artwork which appeals to me. Where a skeleton is projected on a wall and viewers interact by texting what they want the skeleton to say. The interactive nature of this digital art allows views to take part in creating the artwork and to a degree part-ownership. The Arthouse is having its 19th birthday in May and this could be a great idea for everyone to have there say. Ideally i would love to display images from over the years of bands, musicians, friends, colleagues, family, backpackers and allow viewers on the birthday night to have there say by texting. I looked up a couple of webites http://www.ehow.com/how_2172140_text-message-tv-screen.html which explains how to text msg to your computer screen although i think it will be too difficult to manage and operate on the night. Alternatively i could start up a website that displays the images and viewers add there text there. I would then display the website and all the interactive texts recieved on the night.