The mobile game Send Me to Heaven (2013) involves throwing your phone as high in the air as you can. The creator, Petr Svarovsky, said he made it with the hope of destroying as many iPhones as possible, but Apple banned it from the App Store.
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iScream for iPhone
This is a work made by Memo Atken in 2009, but I just discovered it and it’s lovely!
“iScream consists of 16x iPhone applications that do absolutely nothing. Each one has a custom icon, which is a small section of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”. Using the iPhone’s built in home layout interface, one can jumble up or re-align the tiles until the original painting is revealed; locked behind the iPhone home screen with the icon spacing acting as black cage bars.”
Obsolete Presence
New piece by Aram Bartholl for the group show “Odyssey” at Möhnesee.
‘Obsolete Presence’, Arrr…
Dimensions: 200 x 240 cm; Medium: 4C print on forex, wood, mirror, 2017
The World’s First Mobile Phone
A couple of years ago, British Pathé uncovered some striking footage from 1922 showing two women experimenting with the first mobile phone.
(via Open Culture)