Cell Phone Disco is a playful experimental installation made out of flashing cells. By multiplication of a mobile phone gadget, only slightly altered consumer product, we created a space to experience the invisible body of the mobile phone.

Flashing cells basically consist of one or more LEDs, battery and a sensor that detects electromagnetic (EM) radiation transmitted by an active mobile phone. When the sensor detects EM waves it sets off the LEDs to flash for a couple of seconds. In general the flashing cells are enclosed in a plastic casing on a strap and sold as a fashion accessory for a mobile phone.

The Cell Phone Disco installation has two parts:
MOBILE AURA Flashing cells with sensors of higher sensitivity are used to detect electromagnetic radiation of active mobile phone in a range of approximately a meter. This way a sort of aura appears around the phone, revealing a part of it’s invisible body.While the user moves around talking on his phone, this aura follows the conversation as a light shadow through the space.
MOBILE DRAWINGMuch less sensitive cells are used to create a canvas for an inkless marker. The LEDs get activated only by an extreme proximity of the electromagnetic source. Moving the phone close to the cells therefore leaves a trace of light, an temporary electromagnetic drawing.

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Transparent mediafacade at the T-Mobile Headquater Bonn, the world first transparent mediafacade in a size of 300 square meters, being attached to a building, a fine example of a harmonius connection of architecture and media.

The aluminiumslets with the depth of 3 cm and the tickness of only 1 cm were specially designed to fit waterproof LED-cards. The large pixel distance creates the transparency of the construction.

The led modules are integrated in metal extrusions. Due to it´s brightness and it´s fast responding leds this fassade has the ability to display both, static and animated content also during daytime. Content can be updated online by ag4. Thus it is possible to meet the fast changing communication requirements for a company like T-Mobile.
Some technical Details:
Resolution: about 244 000 Pixel
Best viewing distance: 40 meters
via: mediaarchitecture

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“The world of media arts is expanding with increasing speed every year.
notion mold is a space design in which feelings stirring behind the creation such as wishes and expectations of artists existing in the background of works which had made an entry into the Festival were replaced with forms as a design metaphor.Symbolic figures reaching out from the entrance were created with see-through fabric. They proceeded organically farther into the exhibition hall folding upward and downward. The area’s award-winning works were exhibited where the audience stepped in, as if he or she were guided by something, were lighted softly with category color zone by zone. A function was interwoven into the color which gave a vague hint of a contact point between an work which the audience was facing and the audience themselves.

LEDs were added to captions of works exhibited the same as last year. In my space construction, those lights were the same number as the artists who created works and asserted themselves gently in the semi-darkness of the exhibition space.”
TANIGAWA Junji, JTQ Inc.
from official site Japan Media Arts Plaza

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