Interactive Futures, Victoria, BC, Canada. January 27 2006
Digital Art Weeks, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. July 10 - 14 2007

The project "Rip my Disk", presented at IF06, brings mobile art to the dancefloor by blurring privacy and bringing personal content to the big screen. In an augmented VJ performance, visitors can enter into a dare by letting the Scheinwerfer team "rip" multimedia contents off their personal handphones with the Soundium program to get exposed ("virtually naked") on the dance floor. Others, not so akin to risk taking, can simply enjoy employing their handphones for interactive painting as well as sending media sources such as live video and image material. The sent media is used as personal artifacts, which are continuously adapted and integrated. The result is the personal enhancement of the space around the media owner's location. The project also demonstrates how mobile communication technologies can easily be made accessible to artists or performers.

The installation at Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, presented Rip My Disk in a stand-alone version, basically consisting of a screen, camera and Bluetooth / Infrared communication.

Performance "Rip My Disk", January 27 2006, Open Space, Interactive Futures 06, Victoria, BC, Canada
Talk "The Naked Phone, January 28 2006, Interactive Futures 06, Victoria, BC, Canada → PDF
Installation "Rip My Disk" at Cabaret Voltaire, July 10 - 14 2007, Digital Art Weeks, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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