Mobile
‘Mobile’ -
August 13th – September 3rd 2005 @ Arena House, Duke Street, Liverpool
Exhibition of playful, clever and tender art made with, for and about mobile phones. Eleven artists are encouraging viewers to take a closer look at mobile phones. From lo-fi to cutting-edge, the work explores not only the technology, but the personal, social, and political effects of a device now found in over 50 per cent of people’s pockets.
“The show includes artist-made wallpapers downloadable in the gallery, re-arranged classic ring tones and the opportunity to chat via text with an artist in a hut in Sweden.”
Work in the exhibition explores the mobile as a camera, giving audience members the chance to add to the images on show; other artists explore their handsets as personal treasures, lifelines and albums, and some find humour in our phones, with takes on past communication inventions and our paranoia about how it all works
