Archive for Mobile Media

Resembuild

// March 29th, 2008 // No Comments » // Alternate Reality Games, Communication Lab, Dynamic Web, Introduction to Computational Media, Location, Mobile Media, Physical Computing

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Resembuild is a mobile phone photo collage powered by human intelligence.

The project asks users to reconstruct an image from a series of abstract fragments, using their mobile phone camera. The image pieces are printed on numbered cards (and made available via a custom phone application), and participants are required to take a picture that resembles the one they are given, and submit it via multimedia message (MMS) to a designated e-mail address. They can either find or (re)construct the image from the world around them, and are encouraged to be as accurate (and inventive) as possible.

The final resulting collage – recreating a popular video game character – is showcased online.

It was interesting to see the elements used by the Resembuilders to recreate the image.

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For this project I collaborated with Mitch Said.

Project url: http://mitchsaid.com/resembuild

Mo’body

// February 27th, 2008 // No Comments » // Mobile Media

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Go to Mobody

Mobody is a collaborative mobile photo body.

Participants photograph one of three body parts (head, torso or legs) using their phone camera and MMS their photo to our database (or upload it using the mobile web), and it becomes part of our body image display. Each time a new body part is sent as an MMS, it replaces the one on display

Mitch Said and I worked together for this project. It was showcased during the ITP Spring ‘08 and then selected to live as a gallery exibit on the ITP floor for Fall 09.

Project url: http://moourl.com/mobody