Tentacles iPhone Screen Controller (www.tentacles.ca)

BioMAPPING

Art can take the temperature of a culture and allow us to gauge our selves through our sensual and perceptual experiences. Dr. Paula Gardner (OCAD) together with Dr. Barbara Jenkins (WLU) and Dr. John Zellick (Waterloo) is leading research into Biomapping: mobile interventions in self-computation and spatial aesthetics.

Participants create artworks based on their own biometric (heart rate, eye movement, or breathing rate), and perception data. Working with artists, they will craft the software that will process their data, creating a biomap of 'self.'

Supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

www.mobilelab.ca/biomapping

TENTACLES

Tentacles is a unique application for the Apple iPhone/iPod touch turning your device into a mobile game controller enabling your participation in a multi-user, location-based game projected into public spaces.

Presentations:

MediaCity 2010, Weimar, Germany, October 2010

Festival du nouveau cinema, Montreal, Quebec, October 2010

Museum of Image and Sound (MIS), Mobilefest, Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 2010

Led by Rob King, Geoffrey Shea (OCAD) and Michael Longford (York University).

www.tentacles.ca

TRIO

An cell phone controlled installation depicting a trio of folk musicians by Geoffrey Shea.

Viewers/users control the arrangement through a generic cell phone interface.

Presented at Toronto's Nuit Blanche, 2010.

Cell Phone Xylophone

A cell phone controlled musical instrument created as part of PORTAGE.

Led by Dr. Paula Gardner and Prof. Geoffrey Shea and funded by Heritage Canada.

www.mobilelab.ca/xylophone

PORTAGE

PORTAGE is an artist and designer driven research project, converting a short street in downtown Toronto into a virtual theatre. Users with mobile devices spray virtual graffiti on walls, turn surveillance cameras back on themselves or collaboratively create music through choreography.

Led by Dr. Paula Gardner and Prof. Geoffrey Shea and funded by Heritage Canada.

www.mobilelab.ca/portage

PLAY:

The Hertzian Collective

Geoffrey Shea will be presenting a large, cell phone controlled installation at the 2010 Vancouver Cultural Olympiad.

Play: The Hertzian Collective is a sound and video installation controlled by viewers through their mobile phones. A rich collage of naturally occurring visual rhythms and a spoken text explore schoolyard games: the structured and unstructured play invented by children during the loss of innocence that accompanies growing up.

Press Release

SCRAMBLE

A collocated word game where players in different cities simultaneously rearrange letters on a virtual field - the screens on their phones - based on their movements on a physical field.

Led by Geoffrey Shea (OCAD) and David Gauthier (Concordia).

www.mobilelab.ca/scramble.html

Alter Audio

Innovative and unique examples of how a collaborative audio/musical authoring scenario can enhance, measure, communicate and interrogate our physical and virtual experience of a site with interruptive elements, through parallel and convergent play.

Led by Prof. Geoffrey Shea and Dr. Paula Gardner and funded by Heritage Canada.

http://mobilelab.ca/alteraudio

Mobile Nation

Mobile Nation: Creating Methodologies for Mobile Platforms
Edited by Martha Ladly and Philip Beesley

Riverside Architectural Press w/ Canadian Design Research Network
Toronto, Ontario, 2008
ISBN 978-0-9780978-4-4

The Haunting

The Haunting Project is an immersive genre-bending gaming experience researched and developed by the Lab and Concordia University. By combining traditional genres of suspense, mystery, horror, historical documentary, with pervasive gaming the team was able to prototype a user experience that engaged with the history and landscape of Mont Royal Park in Montreal.

Led by Michael Longford and David McIntosh.

www.thehaunting.ca

PHONE NOIR

Words Aloud Festival

Phone Noir is a mobile poetry experience presented at the Words Aloud! Spoken Word Festival. Users are transported to a Casablanca-inspired railway environment, peppered with random noir-like phrases that are isolated or overlap depending on their movement through space.

Written and performed by Paula Gardner and Geoffrey Shea, additional sound by John Pavicic, engineered by Jagmit Singh (Bluetooth) and Ken Leung (GPS).

PARK WALK

The Park Walk Project is a social and environmental mapping prototype that records and delivers historical, geological, and user-defined stories in urban and wilderness parks. With this key learning the Lab prototyped user interfaces and working modules that enable park visitors to document their experience, tag their creations to specific spots along trails and share them with other visitors.

Led by Martha Ladly and Bruce Hines.

www.mobilelab.ca/parkwalk

Ontario College of Art & Design

The Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) is Canada’s largest university for art and design, specializing in creativity and innovation. Established in 1876, the university has more depth and breadth in visual arts and design programs than any school of its kind in Canada. OCAD students enjoy a one-of-a-kind learning environment that combines an experiential, studio-based education with liberal studies, which is recognized with a BFA or BDes.

www.ocad.ca