www.mobileaudience.blogspot.com

Saturday, March 07, 2009

This is the complemntary website to the book Mobile Audience, based on primary field research, its principal aims being to interrogate and explain the visual languages and critical discourses growing up around the new art and narrative forms which are adapting to mobile technologies, in particular through examining audience response.  The book forms a study of these emergent uses of mobile, wearable and wire-free technologies, which have moved the audience for screen-based work out of the gallery and cinema into public spaces and geographies, with a particular focus on forms of experimental art works using narrative in its new spatialised or “locative” incarnations. This continues arguments on reception rehearsed in Rieser, M, Zapp, A, New Screen Media: Cinema/Art/ Narrative (BFI, London, 2002), but examines and contextualizes more recent and developing work founded on mobile technologies.