Week 5: Mobile Phones

Mobile Phone software and capabilities:

Music, internet, photos, video, games, sms, recording audio, flash messages (and other formating such as blinking), bluetooth, up and downloading, phone surveillance software, ability to personalise (eg assign ringtones to particular callers)...

Emerging art forms:

Text or character based art, poetry, stories built up by a round-robin effect, creating ring tones, short films, video art, screensavers, sound pieces from ring tones, sculpture from mobile phone bits, dynamic collage (each recipient adds a piece), stop-motion animation,

Phone-related themes:

Texting language, Portability, identity, privacy (eg upskirting), size of device, multiple recipients, ownership, individuality, space-time (transnational borders and time zones, expectation of immediate response), collaboration

One can use the phone as a production tool, as it contains some software for manipulation, but also as a method for presenting your art.

How to connect Mac to Mobile:

Click bluetooth icon on the right top menu bar.
Make sure Turn Bluetooth is On.
On phone find Bluetooth setting and ensure it is turned on and Find Me.
On Mac scroll through Browse Files to find phone and use as a file manager.

Phone asks if I want to 'bond' with the computer - Yes.
Enter a password - hit 1 key three times and enter.
When corresponding password box comes up on Mac, type in 111 and Ok.
Browse screen comes up.

To send a file:

Click Bluetooth icon and my phone name and Send File.
Select file to send (make sure it's an acceptable file format and size) and Send.
The file is transferred to my phone and I must select Accept in order to complete the download.

Websites:

dlux.org.au/mobilejourneys
portableworlds.anat.org.au



Clayanimation:

How to make a claymation animation on a mobile: www.clayanimation.com
To download a claymation freeware: english/stop_motion_animator.htm

Be aware that 24 frames = 1 second of film time

Could also use a series of stills, turn into a PowerPoint presentation and add music and voice over narration.