The Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa [MINA] is a network project, which aims to create a dialogue between the creative industry, artists, designer and filmmakers working with mobile devices. MINA explores the possibilities of interaction between people, content and the emerging mobile industry. The MINA symposium will provide a forum to debate the prospect of wireless, mobile and ubiquitous technologies in a changing art and design environment and the transforming creative industries.

Speakers include Marsha Berry, Associate Professor Lynne Ciochetto, Dean Keep, Roy Parkhurst, Dr. Max Schleser, Gavin Wilson and Daniel Wagner

Speakers online Dr. Camille Bake, Kasia Molga, Christian Fry, Andrew Quitmeyer, Daniel Mauro, Laurent Antonczak and Tiago Franklin.

MINA Symposium:

10:30 Registration / Tea & Coffee

11:00 am
Dr Camille Baker – MindTouch: Mobile Media Performance   [UK]
Kasia Molga – Saving the world with Twitter – musing on alternative ways of communications. Not necessary among humans.   [UK]
Dr Christopher Fry – Marking the possibilities: QR codes and new notions of space and place [UK]
Chair: Karen Curley

12:00 pm
Andrew Quitmeyer – Semi-Automatic Filmmaking with Mobile Devices [USA]
Laurent Antonczak  – Mobile Devices and Art Museum, a new learning experience [France]
Daniel Mauro – Speaking without Listening: Limitations of the Online Distribution and Accessibility of Amateur Video   [USA]
Chair: Roy Parkhurst

1 pm – 2pm Lunch Break

2 pm
Dean Keep and Marsha Berry – The Mobile Aesthetic: Exploiting the possibilities for Creative Practice
Roy Parkhurst – A small history of cinematography: Walter Benjamin and the tradition of the city portrait
Gavin Wilson – The Body as Physical Conduit for Experience in a Phenomenology of Cell Cinema
Chair: Dr. Max Schleser

3pm
Associate Professor Lynne Ciochetto – Cellphones and social services for the ‘bottom billion’
Tiago Franklin – The Brazilian Perspective on Mobile Art and Mobile Filmmaking [BRAZIL]
Daniel Wagner – Entertainment Lab for the Very Small Screen (ELVSS)

Chair: Antony Nevin

4pm
Rosângela Ap – “Mobile Art” – Mapping, Analysis and Classification of Poetic Proposal to use Cell Phones
Max Schleser – Mobile Filmmaking 2.0
Miss Pixels – I’m a serial creator – The Hashtag Project [Canada]

Roger Guetta -  Eureka Moments/App Use As Vehicle For Self Discovery And Catharsis [Canada]

Andrew B. White – iPhoneography

Chair: Gray Hodgkinson

For program details see: www.mina.pro