mobile connections at CFP2004

20-23.04.04 | berkely ca usa

*taster event for futuresonic04*

MobiloPhobia

The panacea of openness and accessibility has not arrived, and pervasive technologies such as mobile phones are increasing exploited as tools of surveillance and social control. Where MobiloTopia at Transmediale explored the utopian hopes generated by mobile media, MobiloPhobia looks at the dystopian vision of a future in which our every move is monitored and tracked. It will explore how the ideology of free and open communication contrasts with specific ways in which media are embedded in the everyday, the limits and possibilities that arise on the boundary between open and closed nodes, how communication media can be appropriated, and ways of intervening in systems of control.

Presented by Drew Hemment

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