Kitchen Budapest
a media lab in Hungary powered by Magyar Telekom

Project: Art content for mobile phones

How to integrate interactivity into art? or
How to infuse poetry into a functional (operational) art platform that is inherently interactive?

Premises:

• Mobile phones are becoming not only mobile computers but they will also be far more integrated into web-based applications.
• The number of creative applications that is mediated through mobile phones will rapidly expand, there will be a new culture around cell phone use.
• The potentials of a handset as a general digital input device can be utilized for creative purposes as well through developing new lines of mobile phone applications that turns consumers into active cultural agents.
• Mobiles, like many MP3 players, are currently passive content aggregators for the music industry but they can easily generate content actively as well.
• Active mobile applications for music can also reach a global audience if integrated with web support.
• Music can be a primary engine to change mobile phones from communicational to interactional tools. Music is our first focus.

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