Martin Rieser Artist and Writer The Third Woman

 

Description

A site-specific proposal for Vienna under the e-mobilArt initiative
Project Thesis: We are an international group of professional media
artists brought together by the worldwide network provided through the
E-mobilArt workshop, and funded by the European Union. 


Our original proposal was to script an interactive Mobile Video Game 
related to the Vienna U-Bahn video screens and mobile phones,
 that derives thematic content by revealing
layers of a contemporary film drama. Launched from an initial Vienna
U-Bahn site, we foresee Vienna-based scenarios communicating universal
issues, adding to a global conversation on migration, black economy the
underground world of cities. We envision using the U-bahn infoscreens at
Karlsplatz to display and publicise an interactive film-game that we
have scripted. In order to do this, we would require 30 second screen
slots on an hourly rotation. 


Using cutting-edge mobile technologies, we are inviting participants 
to engage in a game on their personal mobiles
that, for an example, replaces the normal perceptions of Winner and
Loser, with a biologic concept where the Winner might be the one who has
gathered the greatest amount of immunity, through participating in
scenarios created to reflect ‘contagions’ experienced through an
inetractive film, based on reworking the theme of the THIRD MAN for the
21st century The specific thematics relate to underground history,
marginalization and the effects of successive historical upheavals in
the city . They will be realised through the metaphor of mutation, via
digital “viral” transmission and the accumulation of language and image
through process. 

Thus the game rules will involve a notion of the
passing of viral “codes” between players. Audiovisual materials will
then be sent to participants’ mobile phones through a number of
associated technologies, depending on their locations in the subway...

 

Technologies:

       Mobile phones cannot
       access GPS signals
       underground, so
       we envisage using a
       combination of
       Bluetooth beacons, and
       either Semacode
       technology, RFID
       chip reading or image
       recognition software,
       depending on the user’s
       mobile capabilities.







       Producer/Coordinators:

       Nita Tandon (Austria)
       Martin Rieser (UK)



       Participating Artists:
       Anna Dumitriu (UK)
       Cliona Harmey (IRE)
       Margarete Jahrmann (Aus/CH)
       Martin Rieser (UK)
       Barry L. Roshto (USA/GER)
       Nita Tandon (Aus)
       Pia Tikka (FIN)
       Nina Yankovitz (USA)

Website

The Third Woman