Biennale di Venezia 2007
Mobile Journey. contemporary art - mobility - new technologies

Calling the Glacier - A Mobile Elegy
&
Your Personal Message Sculpture
An installation by Kalle Laar


June 7 - 10, Venice International University, San Servolo Island
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

for the Calling the Glacier project go to www.callingtheglacier.org
for Your Personal Message Sculpture go to www.YPMS.org
Presse

Die Zeit
, online-Ausgabe des Artikels vom 29. Juni 2007 von Iris Rodriguez
Rundfunkfeature
zu Call the glacier
Autor Sven Ricklefs, Deutschlandfunk, 5:38 min Download page oder direkt

Calling the Glacier - A Mobile Elegy
Use your mobile phone and listen to the sound of the melting glacier in real-time
Call + 49 89 3791 4058 and you will be connected directly with the Vernagt Glacier


Components used in the installation at the Biennale



call me - business cards 86 x 56 mm

call me - 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


banner text
use your browser to
download pdf text by Dr.Ludwig Braun


3 videos

untitled
(gauging station) 25 min
untitled
(vernagtbach) 32 min
untitled (wind meter) 52 min

3 screens 230 x 130 mm
YPMS - Your Personal Message Sculpture
use your mobile phone to program your ypms via sms
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 YPMS order website