Artistic creation and the mobile telephone was a topic addressed at the conference “Téléphone Mobile et Création: Cinéma, vidéos, écriture, jeux, musique, applications” (Université Paris 3 and IRCAV) organized by Laurent Creton, Roger Odin, Laurence Allard and Benoît Labourdette. The following is an excerpt from the description of the conference:
“Mobile telephones are used around the world to communicate verbally, in writing and with still or moving images in a number of fields: everyday life and social and family life, but also business, finance and health, without overlooking the artistic field. Paradoxically, the area of artistic creation using mobile phones has until now been little studied. Speaking of artistic creation with respect to the mobile phone cannot be reduced to cataloguing recognized artistic uses, even if such works will fully be a part of this conference. Several festivals, for example, have given impulse in a pioneering manner to the creative use of the mobile telephone’s video capabilities: making cinema with one’s phone. By examining the mobile telephone from the perspective of artistic creation, we hope to broaden the field of stakeholders, spaces and practices by taking into account the fact that the mobile phone is, for example, the most common movie camera in the world, the most widely used writing technology in the world and the main mode of Internet access in many countries (in Egypt, for example, 70% of the population has Internet on their mobile only).”
The site of the conference is accessible at the following address:
http://www.mobilecreation.fr/.