New and upcoming

Mobile Hub

The Media Lab is in the process of establishing a prototype development environement for mobile applications and iTV projects to enable fast prototyping and to offer the possibility to get hands-on experiences with mobile technology. The prototype development environment is called "Mobile Hub" and is run by Jürgen Scheible who is a researcher and doctoral student in the Media Lab.

The Mobile Hub will be ready established by end of spring 05. But already now some resources are available, e.g. mobile devices that can be borrowed.
(See link "Device lending" on the upper left).

The location of the Mobile Hub is: UIAH, Media Lab, 3rd floor, room 333
Contact: Jurgen Scheible, firstname.lastname[at]uiah.fi

The Mobile Hub, what is it? It is a:

* Prototype development environment for mobile applications (client and server).
* Prototype testing environment to run trials and do hands-on testing.
* A “place” where mobile devices can be lended from.
* A place that has concentrated knowledge on Mobile technology, Mobile
   application development and Mobile Media production.
* A facilitator of new projects related to Mobile technology (also collaboration with
   outside partners)

Find more info via the (temporary located) "Mobile Hub"website.


Siemens Mobile Micro Movie Award Competition

Media Lab will participate at the first Siemens Mobile Micro Movie Competition at the international short film festival in Berlin 2.-7- November 2004. Also the UIAH dept for film art and scenography will take part. Siemens has provided both departments with one SX1 video phone which is the tool with which the movie is to be made. Are You interested? Please act now and contact Pipsa Asiala at the Media Lab for further details. The deadline for sending the movies out is August 30, 2004.

ISEA2004

ISEA2004, an international symposium for researchers, designers, and artists, explores wireless media in Helsinki, August 19 - 21. Included, Heidi Tikka's mobile imaging experiment Situations4x both in exhibition and as conference presentation, Machiko Kusahara's speech on Japanese mobile phone culture, Michel Maffesoli's on wireless tribes, and Erkki Huhtamo's on the archaeology of mobile media (source: ISEA2004 magazine 8/2004). ISEA2004 is also much more than that: see http://www.isea2004.fi/

Recent works

Heidi Tikka's mobile imaging experiment Situations4x, where three families and the participating audience experience variations of an imaginary summer day in August 2004 (source: ISEA2004 magazine 8/2004), is exhibited at the ISEA2004 exhibiton, and presented by Heidi at the conference. Read more on Heidi's works at http://www.mlab.uiah.fi/~htikka/

Aware has hosted a collaborative project based in Helsinki during Summer 2004 with a multi-disciplinary group, exploring the practice of renga (linked-verse) in relation to mobile media practice, and wireless experience. Experiments with rapid-prototyping exercises, exploring rules, logics and wireless media engagement towards collaborative renga practice. http://aware.uiah.fi/rengo

Please do send us news and links on any of your works, finished or in progress, that you wish to communicate to others here.