Welcome to the home of the cellphone opera
Mission
Cellphonia explores the social, technological, and creative possibilities of cell phones with bias to encourage new applications for cultural growth.
Projects
Cellphonia: Tempo Variabile (2008)
Tempo variabile is Italian for "changable weather" and a memorial concert for John Cage and David Tudor. This cellphone interactive sound/video performance installation took place at Stevens Institute of Technology on April 5th.
Cellphonia: WET (2007)
is a cellphone interactive sound/video installation at NIME 2007. Visitors will experience a 6-minute looping vocals of naiads lamenting the loss of the world's fresh water with projected video accompaniment.
Cellphonia: In The News (2006) is a locative-based karaoke opera cued and performed by the
cell phone with lyrics daily RSS newsfeeds which generate both the score
and moving images, available anytime anywhere small groups gather, and also
allowing outside users to contribute as a remote chorus. - details -
Conferences
April 4-5, 2008 - E.A.T. 2008 - Cellphonia: Tempo Variabile at Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) Revisited
June 6-10, 2007 - NIME 2007 - Cellphonia: WET
The Seventh International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, New York, NY
August 7-13, 2006 - ISEA 2006 - Cellphonia: http://2006.01sj.org/content/view/62/49/
ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge & the Thirteenth International Symposium of Electronic Art, San Jose, CA
March 2-3, 2006 - Mobile Music Technology - Cellphonia: Work-in-Progress at 3rd International Mobile Music Workshop, Brighton UK
Support
Cellphonia was awarded grants from
NYSCA (2005)
Experiemental Televsion Center (2006)
Harvestworks (2008)