Artworks: Calling the Glacier - A Mobile Elegy . Your Personal Message Sculpture

Biennale di Venezia 2007 . Mobile Journey. contemporary art - mobility - new technologies
Installation by Kalle Laar . Sound-performance at the opening by Kunst oder Unfall (aka Augusta & Kalle Laar)

Calling the Glacier is part of overtures - an interdisciplinary art project about resources. In collaboration with artcircolo & Vodafone Group Research & Development Germany. With the help of the Commission for Glaciology of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Munich. Mobile Journey curated by Lorella Scacco

Use your mobile phone and listen to the sound of the melting glacier in real-time
Call + 43 5254 30089 and you will be connected directly with the Vernagt Glacier

For the 'Calling the Glacier' project go to www.callingtheglacier.org

Installation: Call me-business cards 86 x 56 mm; signboard & posters 1065 x 800 mm; Call me-banner 1000 x 1800 mm; stand with business cards and hand-out scientific text by Dr. Ludwig Braun, director of the Comission for Glaciology; three videos: (Gauging station) 25 min, untitled (Vernagtbach) 32 min, untitled (Wind meter) 52 min, 3 screens 230 x 130 mm; YPMS - Your Personal Message Sculpture. Your Personal Message Sculpture. SMS-programmable lcd screen, MDF, piano finish (Klavierlack) 2000 x 760 x 760 mm, YPMS - banner. 1000 x 1800 mm banner text. more: YPMS order website