NEWS: Geostickies is posted to culturebase.org
Unrealised/ongoing proposals
>Proposal #2(.pdf file) for ISEA 2004
>Proposal #1 for Invisible Landscapes Project
What is the meaning of 'artwork displayed on mobile phones'?
It means we can bring artwork anywhere, anytime.
This artwork turns concept of 'monument' to 'personal invisible monument'
As we have a word "memorial", it isn't hard to imagine that certain memory is strongly associated to where it was created. In this way, we could recognize memorials in public plaza or park as a "tag" to pick up our mind and to remind us of certain events, a piece of history or a great person.
Every statue or sculpture in a public plaza has a certain historical meaning behind it. But you may agree that those sculptures do not have the same significance they used to. I assume we may not need the "tag" to big events like a huge sculpture, or we need another form of "tag" for memory. Are we no longer interested in big events or something smaller in our everyday life? If so, why don't we try to create small (maybe personal) memorials which are associated to places?
General description of the artwork
GeoStickies is an interactive public art project that enables us to make and access to collective of personal memory that could have been overlaid on to urban space. The project puts some "tags" of small events onto geographical fields so that the audience can feel correspondence between "Information space" and "Urban space" . The audience will find tiny electronic memorials for tiny events. But those are only visible or able to be experienced through mobile phones.
The role of mobile phones in this artwork is to make this information space accessible to the audience from anywhere . With the help of a location sensing system in the existing mobile phone network, the audience can walk through information space as if they were walking through urban space.
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Copyright 2003-, Noriyuki Fujimura
With kind support of STUDIO for Creative Inquiry,Carnegie Mellon University and Pola Art Foundation,Tokyo