December 22, 2005
R/GA Holiday Card
Make a Beautiful Noise from New York interactive agency R/GA allows users to create sounds, send them to friends and even download them to their cell phones as ringtones.
“Given where our industry is headed and the direction our client assignments are taking,” says Karen Spiegel, “we decided to incorporate a few of our favorite things—mobility, customization and community participation—into a concept that is fun to interact with and easy to enjoy.”
The card’s biggest challenge was constructing a set of sounds that would be pleasing to the ear, no matter how they were combined.
Posted by richard ting at December 22, 2005, 11:04 PM
Mobile Art
Giselle biguelman's project at ZKM involves algorithmic image manipulation. You can download the app to your mobile and it's all sponsored by Nokia.
Posted by richard ting at December 22, 2005, 10:27 PM
August 10, 2005
iPod Subway Maps
Download subway maps onto you iPod Photos. It's not a particularly interactive piece, but a useful extension of the iPod platform. Maps are available for New York City, Washington D.C., Boston, MA, and Hong Kong.
Posted by richard ting at August 10, 2005, 05:24 PM
March 15, 2005
Woostercollective.com Launches Wooster Mobile
WOOSTERCOLLECTIVE.COM LAUNCHES WOOSTER MOBILE, THE WORLD’S FIRST CURRATED ONLINE ART GALLERY FOR YOUR MOBILE PHONE
New York, New York, March 14 2005
Today, WoosterCollective.com, a leading international showcase for urban/street art announced the launch of Wooster Mobile, a curated online art gallery of downloadable artwork designed for your mobile phone by a group of the world’s most prominent contemporary artists. Images from Wooster Mobile can now be downloaded onto mobile phones around the world at http://www.woostercollective.com/mobile.
Marc and Sara Schiller, founders of the Wooster Collective said – “Our goal with Wooster Mobile is to provide contemporary artists with a new revenue stream and at the same time, generate funds for a terrific cause. All of the Wooster Collective revenue from this project is being donated to a wonderful non-profit organization called Keep A Child Alive. Keep A Child Alive provides life saving drugs to children and families in Africa who are dying each day of AIDS simply because they don't have access to the drugs that can save and prolong their lives.”
WiredSet’s Mark Ghuneim commented “We are excited to enable this vision, having seen many of the artist’s work first hand on city streets, the works take on renewed meaning in their new mobile context. Couple the art with the Wooster Collective charter and cause, it’s a good realization. Artists included in Series One from Wooster Mobile include: Faile, Calma, Tara McPherson, Labrona, Peter Goode. KGBE Rotgut, and many more.
Each image downloaded from Wooster Mobile costs $1.99 USD. In the United States, the mobile wallpapers are currently available on ATT, Cingular, and T-Mobile wireless services. The can also be accessed on most carriers in countries around the world. Additional carriers will be added to the service as they are activated. Wooster Mobile is a collaboration between the Wooster Collective (woostercollective.com); Workhorse Studios, a Los Angeles based mobile content provider and graphics studio; WiredSet a Digital Agency and STARtxt, a award winning mobile platform.
Posted by richard ting at March 15, 2005, 12:55 PM
January 19, 2005
NFL Game Broadcasts Coming to IPods
[more podcasting news from Apple]
NEW YORK - Starting next week, football fans will have a new way to listen to games: on their iPods. The National Football League on Tuesday announced an agreement with Audible Inc., an online distributor of audiobooks and other spoken-word programming, to make recordings of this year's remaining playoff games available for portable audio players, including Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod.
The recordings will be available for purchase through Apple's iTunes Music Store, which has an existing relationship with Audible, and other sites that sell audio over the Internet, according to the NFL and Audible.
Posted by richard ting at January 19, 2005, 12:43 PM
August 10, 2004
Experience Computing
Viable future alternatives to the keyboard interface.
Posted by richard ting at August 10, 2004, 06:28 PM
June 23, 2004
The Media Centre - London, Summer Programme 2004
Land Marks: Huddersfield, is a one day event at The Media Centre to launch three new media art projects based in Huddersfield which emerge from the town’s landscape, history and collective memory. Wireless and mobile technologies are employed by artists and poets to trace and document memory and experience, exploring ways that our knowledge of streets and buildings are inseparable from our personal memories.
+ This is a free public event so everyone is welcome to come along, meet the artists, and get involved.
Read more about the Surface Patterns project.
Read more about the Speakers Corner project.
Posted by richard ting at June 23, 2004, 06:20 PM
November 19, 2003
ActiveCampus: Community-0riented Ubiquitous Computing
The proliferation of handheld computing devices holds out the promise for a new generation of computing applications that could enrich experience of the world around us. The UCSD ActiveCampus project is exploring the problem and opportunity of sustaining community through mobile wireless technology. A major thrust is the development of infrastructure for community-oriented ubiquitous computing and development of applications and services for the large-university environment. The two principal applications in operation are: ActiveCampus Explorer, which uses students' locations to help engage them in campus life; and ActiveClass, a client-server application for enhancing participation in the classroom setting via small mobile wireless devices.
Posted by richard ting at November 19, 2003, 07:15 PM
October 07, 2003
Talking Street
Get the map, choose a stop, call the number and listen — it's as easy to use as an audio guide in a museum. Anyone with a cell phone can enjoy the tour at any time. The tour is free, but your own cell phone charges still apply. The toll-free number is 1-800-644-3545.
There are 13 stops, and each lasts about two minutes. You can visit them in any order you want, at your own pace. After each stop, just hang up and then call back when you get to the next stop. On most cell phones, you can press "send" twice to redial the last phone number.
The whole tour will take about an hour and a half, including walking time.
Posted by richard ting at October 07, 2003, 09:52 PM
September 22, 2003
If Walls Could Talk, Streets Might Join In
BBC CONVERSATION - At the London offices of the BBC's interactive services group, sidewalk passersby can see and hear live interviews and submit questions by sending text messages by mobile phone.
AITING rooms are boring. You can call them lobbies or reception areas and populate them with magazines, but nothing changes the fact that you are waiting and you are bored.
Yet things are different at the Lisbon offices of Vodafone, the British-based mobile phone company. Step inside and you'll find yourself in a space enclosed on one side by a 260-foot-long glass wall. Visible through the glass is a 13-by-13-foot cube poised above an expanse of water: the side facing you is a liquid crystal display screen programmed with a loop of news headlines, short animations and interactive games. In game mode, the cube prompts visitors to dial a number on their mobile phones or use controls embedded in the furniture to play solo or against one another.
Posted by richard ting at September 22, 2003, 04:42 PM
