Session: A Space-Time of Ubiquity and Embeddedness/A Sensation of Ubicomp, Art and Culture
People have argued that mobile devices make life permanent, mappable and viewable. In this talk, the author asks, "What is being made permanent?"
Tracking Transience is a piece in which the artist tracks his own life at all times, primarily using his mobile phone, and put it online so that everyone can know all there is to know about him. The interplay between media and mediated life is unclear. The documentation escapes life and creates its own. We see a lot of things about his life but at the same time, we hardly see anything about him at all. It's as if we are only seeing his shadow.
The mobile phone is like a shadow because it follows us around but at the same time, it protects us as a shelter would. Using mobile media to capture the ephemeral aspects of life. It shelters the artist from the spectator because we only see an outline and not the full picture of his life.
The author leaves us with the question, "Is this characteristic of how we live life through mobile media?"
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