Even though the use of mobile phones for still photography is Gaining more widespread acceptance, more and more cell phones, PDA's and handheld devices are being equipped with video capabilities. What then, are the potentials of the handheld device as a cinematic tool for expression, activism, and experimentation?
To paraphrase Antin, what are the distinctive qualities of Mobile Video, and how do narratives from this technological set differ from its predecessors? Does the intimacy and mobility of the video-enabled cell phone create a change in perspective? Does it represent a culture of universal surveillance where there is a universal intimacy but a complete lack of private space? How does the mobile perspective shift our perception in the way the mediated image of the cellular/network individual is represented? Does its low-resolution somehow challenge the aesthetics, 'truthfulness', or technofetishism of the increasingly filmic nature of video? These are some of the questions that Mobile Exposure hopes to address.
CONCEPT
Mobile Exposure presents works that address mobile culture or uses mobile/handheld devices. Our criteria for slection was very broad; reflecting on the mobile and locative through the medium or the concept.
THE CALL FOR WORKS
The Mobile Exposure handheld video program is an exploration of the potentials of mobile video and culture. Practitioners were invited to submit all lengths of work, although the focus finally settled on short works (less than 15 minutes in length).
Initially, the videos will NOT be shown on cell phones, but in the cinema.
We were looking for works made using cell phones, obsolete video cameras, wristcams, childrens’ NON-(vhs/dv/hi-8) video cameras, PDAs, and even small cameras that allow mpg.
VENUES:
Mobile Exposure will be a traveling theatrical festival.
About Patrick Lichty
Lichty is an artist, scholar, and curator in New Media and technological arts, and is noted for his expertise in arts using mobile technologies. He is Editor-in-Chief of Intelligent Agent Magazine.
Miami Beach Cinematheque
512 Espanola Way at Plaza de Espana
Miami Beach, Florida
33139
USA
The Miami Beach Cinematheque is a 1925 (pre-Deco) Spanish Gothic Revival space in the midst of the Art Deco District of South Beach that has been renovated and restored by the Miami Beach Film Society.
It is a photographic arts gallery/specialized bookstore/and intimate (microcinema) screening room, with an outdoor space for screenings under the stars. Programming varies from ~yoga & film~ to "Cafe Con Cinema" to "Views From the uNderground" (which includes Independent Exposure on the last Thursday of the month).
