Experimental Installation for the Mobile Phone Network
My name is Chun-chi Wang
I'm working on an art project entitled Urban Journal that relates the urban life experience.
You are invited to join my project by sharing your story.
Please SMS/ text your story to +33699771744
URBAN JOURNAL - Concept
"Urban_Journal” is a location sensitive mobile media art piece that facilitates interaction and exchange between people. New media technologies, such as the mobile phone, overlay older forms of communication to constitute a new type of urban space in the form of a social communication matrix. The sending of text messages (SMS) via mobile phones has become a ubiquitous component of such communication practices, enabling every inhabitant with access to a phone to take part in the
“Urban Journal” by recording their daily impressions and forwarding them via their mobile phone.
This phenomena creates a shared cultural platform and through its global media dissemination this leads to the local region entering a global city dialogue.
URBAN JOURNAL – Description
The entire "Urban_Journal” Project will be publicly accessible. All SMS text submissions are received by a message server with a built-in GMS card, via an Internet connection. The keyword, the location, is sent to Google Earth and the satellite image projected in the presentation space. The editorial agency has constant access to the data, independent of location, in order to release it for the presentation. Following editorial release, SMS contributions are triggered in the order they are received and converted into the presentation.
The presentation occur’s in a public space and visitors in the space may be both viewers and creators. While the projector moves our view rapidly across the globe, in directions we cannot choose, we can decide where to stop, by clicking the wireless mouse on the Urban Journal logo that appears on the place of each SMS message received.
Clicking reveals the story sent and an image – two images, in fact – a more detailed overview of the place and a photo – again selected via the keyword location, from Flickr – this photo can be sent with the message and will appear because of the exact keywords. If no photo is sent a random image is displayed, based on location.
While in the space people can text their own story and image and see it, not instantly, but quickly. But the other stories they see, from other locations, they cannot be sure if the person who sent it is in the place they say or standing next to them.
All stories and images will be archived on the project website.
Urban Journal involves a broad-ranging audience, their participation and interaction uses a motion news brief to exchange the transmission of news, to text message their personal conditions, aspirations, dreams, memories, ideas and opinions. In the presentation they can fall across the world, and fall into the stories of others.
URBAN JOURNAL - Technical Description
1. Please SMS/ text your story to Urban Journal.
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Urban country/city#your text up to 120 characters
For example/:
Urban Taiwan/Taipei#I've visited another site, located to east of the city in the shadow of the Taipei 101tower.
Its historical importance to the liberation of Taiwan it's a listed building. best, paul
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2. All SMS text submissions are received by a message server with a built-in GMS card,
via an Internet connection.
3. The keyword, the location, is sent to Google Earth and the satellite image projected
in the presentation space.
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Urban Taiwan/Taipei # I've visited another site, located to east of the city in the shadow of the Taipei 101tower.
Its historical importance to the liberation of Taiwan it's a listed building. best, paul
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4. The editorial agency has constant access to the data, independent of location, in order to release it for the presentation. Following editorial release, SMS contributions are triggered in the order they are received and converted into the presentation.
Chun-chi Wang - BIOGRAPHY
Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Chun-chi Wang has been living in New York since 1992. She received a B.F.A from The Pratt Institute and an M.A from The New York Institute of Technology. In 1997 she start created virtual reality environments as an exploration into the perceptual and emotional aspects of real-time 3d technology.
In 2000 she created the virtual actor, Hiakru, whose first assignment was broadcasting the latest art news, with information drawn from databases. Her work has been included in exhibitions in Europe and the United States, including at PS1 in New York, and she has also published two books, the Futurists Guide to the Web in 2002 and Softimage Design Guide in 2001.
Now based in Taipei and Europe, Wang is continuing to explore connections between people and technology, how each affects the other.
Chun-chi Wang / chun_chi_wang@hotmail.com
digital artist, game developer- interactive installations and media related artworks realized in various countries
1973 Born in Taipei, Taiwan
Education Background
2000 New York Institute of Technology of Communications of Art and Sciences, MA
1996 Pratt Institute of Digital Art, BFA
Teaching Positions:
2006~ Instructor in Shin Chien University in Communications Design Department
2004~ Instructor in Chinese Culture University in Information Communications
Department
Awards and Grants
2007 Taipei City Government Cultural Affairs Department Fellowship
2007 Selected by Taiwan Council for Cultural Addairs Grant,
Artist-in-residence in CAMAC/Centred’Art Marnay Art Centre
Selected exhibitions
2007 " Urban Journal "?Cite des arts Paris?Paris?France
2007 " Urban Journal "?CAMAC?France
2001 " Hikaru:Bio_SyNthesis Session "?Amination, P.S.1, NYC
2001 " Challenges of Instability "?vedio streams in X-Cult Foundation, Switzerland
2001 " i-drunners: re_flesh the body ", Digital Performance Online Archive, UK
2000 " Channels ", vedio streams in Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
2001 " Same Dream " , Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerlan
2000 " RU ", Tenacity, Shedhalle Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2000 " Ectolar ", Performance in Formula Show, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,San Francisco
2000 " Nano Clouds ", open air even program, in Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
2000 " Hosts ", Blasthaus Gallery, San Francisco
1999 " Lshell ", SYNWORLD, Institute for New Culture Technologies,Vienna, Austria