The Wallet

For a long time now, I (we) have seen a day in the future when I have one device that organizes my information, enables my communication, and holds all the stuff currently in my wallet. Convergence of cell phones and PDAs is here (though still a bit rough around the edges). And I’ve got tons of pictures on my mob. The next step is not …

The Cell Phone: 20 years Ago, Today

Are You Receiving Me?

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 …