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Research

Camille Baker

MINDtouch: Mobile Media Performance

The mobile media performance project, MINDtouch: Ephemeral Transference, a PhD art research work completed in 2010 and published in 2011. It proposed that the mobile videophone become a new way to communicate non-verbally, in real time, across different physical and technological environments and locations. Users ‘VJ-ed’ or mixed video from a database live, and using their body data with wireless sensors they had abstract visual conversations with other mobile users, creating a collaborative, telematic collage of externalised body sensations. The goal was to expand and explore more embodied and meaningful exchanges between remote groups of people.

MINDtouch critically investigated, challenged, and extended the potential of performance practice through its live approach, using mobile and online networks. It was about the transmitting the sense of liveness and presence, through visual manifestations of embodied experiences through the mobile network.

It is my contention that lo-fi aesthetics of pixelated images add to the intimacy, authenticity and ‘realness’ of the mobile video medium, as well as making it more accessible to the users. Delays in the transmission render the work more ‘everyman’ in its nature and easier to relate to, while professional quality work creates a distance or disconnect from the common person and their everyday experience or ability. I will discuss these issues and the MINDtouch project in more depth in this paper, as well as new directions in non-verbal mobile expression and performance in my new work.

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Dr. Camille Baker is a lecturer and artist-performer/researcher/curator within various art forms: interactive and performance installation, music composition and performance, video art, web animation, and experience design.

News

Mobile Video – New Trends and Directions

On the 16th June, Te Papa hosted a one-off screening of a selection of creative works made for mobile phones, using mobile phones by Laurent Antonczak and Max Schleser.

Laurent presented music videos designed for small screens, including New Day Interactive, a kinetic music video that responds to user’s mobile phone movements, and Hamster Squaredance, an interactive music video that uses embedded QR codes (Quick Response barcodes that can be read by mobile phones).

Max showed two mobile-mentaries (mobile documentaries) made using mobile phones; Max with a Keitai, a film shot entirely on two mobile phones in Japan in 2006, and Ekaterinburg, a short mobile-mentary about the Heartbeat Festival in the Russian city of Ekaterinburg.

Both Laurent and Max were present at the screenings to discuss their work, and also ran a digital media workshop focusing on mobile film production at Massey University during the weekend following the Te Papa event, (June 17th to 19th 2011) .

News

Digital Media Workshop

Experimenting with the mobile phone to see what works… or does not.

Discovering a new medium and developing relevant content for mobile devices.

 

Seven teams to part in the workshop and explored the following potential fields:

Social Engagement

Community Involvement

Viral Marketing for a Feature Film

Interactivity

Gaming

News

MINA @ Fringe

On the weekend of the 24th and 25th February 2012 MINA projected works submitted throughout

February for the MINA at Fringe Mobile Visual Art Showcase. The 16 minute video projection

featured approx 250 photographic images by 42 artists from around the world shot on various mobile

devices. These works can also be viewed on the MINA facebook and tumblr sites.

This projection is in addition to the showcase video that has also been showing at the Fringe featuring

invited mobile artists. This video can also be viewed in the TV Lounge at the Film Archive Wellington.

MINA will present the showcase again at the Fringe Festival Awards Ceremony on Sunday 4th

February as well as mobile films submitted via the iSupr8 MINA At Fringe app.

MINA wishes to thank the artists who contributed their work for the showcases and being part of one

the first mobile visual art projects in New Zealand. Special thanks to MEA Mobile / iSupr8 app.

#minaatfringe

Shoot and share. Showcasing the creative edge use of mobile technology
in visual arts; photography and moving image. Locally. Globally.

Submit your mobile photography and mobile films for show & screen events at the Fringe Festival 2012 via iSupr8 or email to participate@mina.pro

The use of mobile phones in the creation and distribution of creative content in the hands of both amateurs and professionals is rapidly growing. In New Zealand, at the forefront of this new art form is MINA (Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa), brining together a collective of mobile content creators both locally and internationally.
MINA at Fringe presents a combination of a mobile visual showcase and “pop-up” public screenings around the Wellington Fringe Festival Festival 2012.
Content is exclusively created on mobile devices, primarily from iPhone, Android and Symbian platforms and includes photography (“phoneography”, “iPhoneography) and moving image (“micromovies”, “mobile-mentaries”). Artists from New Zealand and around the world can submit their mobile films and photography content to be shown at MINA at Fringe showcases and pop-up screenings.
For this occasion MINA curated a mobile photography show-reel including 34 mobile photographers from around the world:http://vimeo.com/35845076
Mobile photography and mobile films can now be submitted till the 20th February 2012.
To submit your mobile photography or film, simply email them to participate@mina.pro within the specified time-frames.

For MINA at Fringe, MEA Mobile have added a special MINA portal within their vintage 8mm film iPhone app “iSupr8″. Users of the app can directly submit any of their iSupr8 videos for show at MINA at Fringe.
Fringe-goers and participants can use their mobile devices to shoot and upload their own experiences during the Festival. Submit your mobile work and be part of Wellington Fringe 2012!

Check the MINA website, follow MINA on tumblr and Facebook for screening times, updates and further information.

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MINA on twitter: #minaatfringe / @MINAmobile

News

Shoot Me Now

  • December 17, 2011
  • by seanL

French/NZ collaboration explores mobile filmmaking in real-time on the 21st December 2011.

Local mobile film innovators Virtuo (Auckland | Strasbourg | Helsinki) and MINA (Aotearoa) have collaborated on the creation of a global live mobile film event, ‘Shoot Me Now’, as part of the French short film festival “Le Jour Le Plus Court”, to be held on 21 December, 2011.

Read more “Shoot Me Now” →

Team [ MINA ] and partners

gobandit

  • December 15, 2011
  • by seanL

3D GPS HD ACTION CAM – Shoot your adrenaline. Map your speed, route, altitude.

Do you brag to your mates about how fast and how hard you were actually going… now you can have PROOF.

Using advanced GPS technology gobandit GPS can record your adrenaline in 3 dimensions. Whether you’re launching off a snowy summit, biking down insanely steep terrain or jumping out of an airplane, the GPS – HD records your adventure every step of the way.

Record video on High Definition with 720P (1280×720) @ 30fps or in Standard Definition (640×480) @ 30fps or choose between 2 and 5sec intervals for taking action photos then see your action on google maps.

›› Visit the gobandit website

Team [ MINA ] and partners

ArtRage

  • December 4, 2011
  • by seanL

ArtRage is a stylish, intuitive painting and drawing package that makes it easy to produce natural looking artwork on your iPad.

Its wide range of artistic tools lets you get right down to the creative process without forcing you to learn complex or technical controls.

ArtRage was featured in a special demonstration at the MINA Opening Night in the Film Archive and at the MINA Mobile Creativity and Innovation Symposium at Massey University.

 

 

Workshops

Mobile Innovation and Mobile Filmmaking Workshop: Creativity Changing our…

  • October 31, 2011
  • by seanL

MINA, in collaboration with University of Strasbourg (France), Institute of Communication Design, College of Creative Arts, Massey University,Wellington (New Zealand), AUT University | Colab – Mobile Technologies (New Zealand)  and the Festival for the Future (New Zealand) present an international collaborative mobile film-making workshop.
Read more “Mobile Innovation and Mobile Filmmaking Workshop: Creativity Changing our World” →