{"id":14535,"date":"2021-02-19T16:11:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T15:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/?post_type=artists_ui&p=14535"},"modified":"2021-03-17T20:48:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T19:48:38","slug":"mobile-feelings-i-ii","status":"publish","type":"artists_ui","link":"https:\/\/dam.org\/museum\/artists_ui\/artists\/sommerer-mignonneau\/mobile-feelings-i-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Feelings I & II"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_gallery type=”justified” hover_effect=”opacity” images=”14536,14537,14538″ css_animation=”fade-up”][wvc_video_opener alignment=”left” caption_position=”right” video_url=”http:\/\/www.interface.ufg.ac.at\/christa-laurent\/WORKS\/artworks\/MobileFeelings\/videos\/MobileFeelings.mp4″ caption=”Video documentation Mobile Feelings”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”Mobile Feelings (2003)” font_size=”16″ text_align=”left” font_weight=”600″][vc_column_text]”Mobile Feelings” is an artistic project that explores the ambivalence of sharing personal information with an anonymous audience. Instead of communication via voice or images to people we know, “Mobile Feelings” lets people communicate with strangers through virtual touch and body sensations including smell and sweat using specially designed mobile phones.<\/p>\n

As opposed to application-based systems in the area of \u201caffective computing,\u201d \u201cwearable computing,\u201d \u201crobotic user interfaces,\u201d and tactile interfaces for handheld devices, \u201cMobile Feelings\u201d aims to create unusual and unsettling sensations of sharing private body sensations with complete strangers over a mobile phone network.<\/p>\n

Users at the Ars Electronica are provided with specially equipped “Mobile Feelings” phone devices that resemble organic or bodily shapes. These devices host miniature bio-sensors and actuators that capture the users’ heartbeat, blood volume pressure and pulse, skin conductivity, sweat and smell. All data can be sent to other anonymous users who can perceive and feel these most private sensations through actuators, vibrators, ventilators, micro-electromechanical and micro-bio-electrochemical systems which are also embedded in each “Mobile Feelings” device.<\/p>\n

“Mobile Feelings” devices communicate with each other through a standard mobile phone network and users can move around freely to use their devices anywhere and anytime just like normal mobile phones.<\/p>\n

Besides capturing and transmitting the various body data, the “Mobile Feelings” devices also display images of the other connected users. When a user touches her device and selects one of the displayed persons, she can receive this person\u2019s body sensations, through for example a tickle, a vibration, a small wind or humidity, a pulse, a push or a slight stroke, creating a strange and perhaps erotic ambiguity.<\/p>\n

IAMAS lnstitute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences<\/a>, Gifu, Japan, <\/span>in collaboration with France Telecom Studio Creatif, Paris<\/span>, France.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_empty_space height=”70px”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_gallery type=”justified” hover_effect=”opacity” images=”14541,14540,14543,14542″ css_animation=”fade-up”][wvc_video_opener alignment=”left” caption_position=”right” video_url=”http:\/\/www.interface.ufg.ac.at\/christa-laurent\/WORKS\/artworks\/MobileFeelingsII\/videos\/MobileFeelingsII.mp4″ caption=”Video documentation Mobile Feelings II”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ css_animation=”fade-up”][vc_custom_heading text=”Mobile Feelings II (2004)” font_size=”16″ text_align=”left” font_weight=”600″][vc_column_text]”Mobile Feelings” proposes an art form is this not any more location- or context based but instead becomes integrated into people\u2019s daily lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cMobile Feelings\u201d is an artistic project that investigates how technology has transformed our social and individual lives and how we have accepted a reduced sense of privacy in exchange for connectivity and mobility. The project also explores how the sense of \u201ctouch\u201d still remains one of our most private sensations, which we often avoid to share with strangers and still lack a concise language to describe.<\/p>\n

Finally, \u201cMobile Feelings\u201d explores novel forms of mobile communications that might as well include smell and sweat as more private ways of \u201cfeeling and communicating with each other over distance.\u201d In our aim to get media art off the walls and out into people\u2019s lives, \u201cMobile Feelings\u201d presents another step towards the merging of art, life and society.<\/p>\n

Supported by IAMAS lnstitute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences <\/strong><\/a>Gifu, Japan<\/span> in collaboration with France Telecom Studio Creatif, Paris<\/span>, France[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]More works<\/strong><\/p>\n

Interactive Plant Growing (1992)<\/a>
\nA-Volve (1994-1995)<\/a>
\nLife Spacies I & II (1997-1999)<\/a>
\nHaze Express (1999)<\/a>
\nThe Living Web (2002)<\/a>
\nNanoScape (2002)<\/a>
\nMobileFeelings I & II (2003-2004)
\nEau de Jardin (2004)<\/a>
\nLife Writer (2006)<\/a>
\nThe Value of Art (2010)<\/a>
\nEscape (2012)<\/a>
\nPortrait on the fly (2015-2018)<\/a>
\nEgometer (2017)<\/a>
\nNeuro Mirror (2017)<\/a>
\nScavengers (2020)<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_gallery type=”justified” hover_effect=”opacity” images=”14536,14537,14538″ css_animation=”fade-up”][wvc_video_opener alignment=”left” caption_position=”right” video_url=”http:\/\/www.interface.ufg.ac.at\/christa-laurent\/WORKS\/artworks\/MobileFeelings\/videos\/MobileFeelings.mp4″ caption=”Video documentation Mobile Feelings”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”Mobile Feelings (2003)” font_size=”16″ text_align=”left” font_weight=”600″][vc_column_text]”Mobile Feelings” is an artistic project that explores the ambivalence of sharing personal information with an anonymous audience. Instead of communication via voice or images to people we know, “Mobile Feelings” lets people communicate with strangers…<\/p>\n

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