Cell Tagging

"Brooke A. Knight is an artist and educator whose work investigates the landscape and its manifestations in technology; emergent visualities enabled by new devices; and the representation of the quotidian. 

The mobile phone occupies a space that is both connecting and distancing. Seemingly ubiquitous, it has become an increasingly powerful tool, functioning as a phone, PDA, browser, and camera. With Cell Tagging it becomes a remote control that allows users to dial, draw, and speak. After dialing the number posted on the website, users are asked to enter a zip/city code that is significant to them. An aerial map of that place loads onto the screen. After choosing a color and brush size from the palette, users can use their cell phone keypads to draw directly onto the map. They are asked to speak into the phone and say why that place and drawing is meaningful to them. Users can save their drawings to the Cell Tagging database where others may view them. Cell phone users 'graffiti' the sound-space around them, making every place their own. Cell Tagging literalizes this act of marking." -- from Turbulence