VINN Excellence Centre 2007-2017
Mobile Life
An artistic mobile application exploring deletion and compression through traditional Japanese poem - Haiku making technique - within technological paradigm. The exploration has been made through the workshop, interviews, art practices and theories, and “research through design” method.
Interdisciplinary work and collaboration between an artist Vygandas Simbelis, designer Elsa Kosmack Vaara, and engineer researcher Pedro Ferreira. They are conducting research at Royal Institute of Technology and Mobile Life Centre in Stockholm, Sweden.
The artistic mobile application “Delete by Haiku” feeds off the stored SMS messages on the participants’ phones (the app is developed for the Android OS and runs on most modern Android phones) and assists in creating poetry out of past messages, participants can take advantage of different interactive ways of exposed creative process and progressively “delete”, or perhaps rather “compress” personal data into a haiku poem, through this process the application invites participants to engage creatively with their often-cluttered personal message history by partly destroying it and creating something new from it.
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Mobile Life center through the eyes of the people who work here. This video was made to give people an understanding of what it feels like to work at Mobile Life. The video was made by Sophie Kürth-Landwehr in April 2013 while she was a Master's student in the centre.
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