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A bit of background information
OneSixty Characters explores the concept of storytelling — a tradition of handing
down stories from generation to generation. Text messaging was used
to explore how people continue to make personal connections every day, but
increasingly on a far wider scale. Mobile phones allow people to connect
over any distance — across a street or between cities around the globe,
instantaneously.
Electrofringe Festival exhibition
Referencing the past and other
mobile storytelling gadgets, a selection of the messages were transferred
to a 35mm slide and presented in individual vintage handheld slide viewers.
Like the mobile phone, the slide viewer was once a portable device that
allowed people to share stories (in this case as images) on an intimate
and personal scale.
Online exhibition
To become part of the online exhibition please go to the sending
rhyme page for instructions.
I look forward to your rhymes!
Anita Bacic