Kursansvarig: Stefanie Wuschitz
Mobile Devices are not only used for one-to-one communication alone, but to consume, produce and exchange rich media. A phone’s availability and ubiquitousness makes it an attractive tool for creative, social and participatory projects. Innovations like live streaming, geocoding and mobile web have been applied in unorthodox ways by activists, artists and designers. Users in developing regions have adopted the mobile phone for purposes like money transfers and microcredit systems.
In this workshop we will explore new concepts of media creation on mobile phones by building our own mobile applications. We will look into an open source environment called MOBILE PROCESSING. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists to prototype software for mobile phones. Sketches programmed using MOBILE PROCESSING run on Java Powered mobile devices. After experimenting with what this software can do and how to use it we will try out the new sketches on our own phones. For this workshop no prior experience with mobile media is required.
