Cool Hunting
| 25 February 2003view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
Are You Receiving Me?
by Josh Rubin
Artist Jody Zellen explores the collision of public and private space facilitated by mobile telephony in her latest work, Disembodied Voices. Cell phones allow us to converse with each other anywhere, and the separate halves of our intimate conversations can become bizarre performances for audiences of innocent bystanders. Zellen describes the web site as 'a meditation on the nature of public space'; here you can listen to snatches of conversations in a number of languages, contribute a disruptive cell phone encounter story to the forum, and become another node in a translocal wireless network of callers. - Helen Varley Jamieson, Rhizome
3degrees
by Josh Rubin
The coolest group at Microsoft (a.k.a NetGen) has launched threedegrees, a desktop app for small groups to share music, pictures, and other cool stuff. It's the evolution of IM. They think it's for kids, but it just might be loved by all...
