SMS in the Arts

Minute Man Tourists Can Dial Up History - May 19 2004

This month, Minute Man National Historic Park became the first in the US to offer a cellphone guide. For $5.99, visitors can call up an hourlong take on Paul Revere and the North Bridge, according to Boston.com

"For years, the park's staff has been trying to develop a feasible alternative to the audio tours offered at most museums. The guides are wildly popular, with 100,000 of them rented during just the last year at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. But Minute Man officials say the nature of the site -- it's spread over 967 acres -- and its limited staff hours make renting prerecorded units a logistical nightmare.

Spatial Adventures has been looking to corner the market on cell-tour technology even though it's far from refined".

Text Messaging Theatre - Oct 22 2003

Spectators at The Bull Arts Centre in Northern London are in for an evening of textual enhancement as Texterritory's multi-media, non-linear story breaks the traditional relationships of dance, theater, and the audience.

The public plays their role as part of a dynamic and influential audience in this truly unique multi media, interactive text messaging performance.

In a previous performance, Texterritory was a playground concept in which the audience controlled the physical bodies of dancers and musicians along with lighting, music and midi system at specific times in the performance... by sending instructions by SMS.

Contemporary Artists Create Artwork for Cellphone Screens - Aug 9 2003

See My SMS a Paris based mobile content editor who is single handedly raising the level of quality for content on mobile phones will be launching in November, in the Nokia boutique of Parisian Left bank department store Le Bon MarchÈ, exclusive cards offering contemporary artists which can be downloaded onto cell phones; Jeanne SUSPLUGAS, Anne DELEPORTE, Sam SAMORE, Susan SHUP and FranÁois-xavier COURREGES have all created original artwork for this project.

Museum Seeks Younger Volunteers with SMS Campaign - Jun 03 2003

In an effort to attract young people into volunteer work for the National Railway Museum, a text campaign is being launched, sending SMS to young people in schools and colleges around York to tempt them into applying. And a new locomotive-like logo has been created with the message: 'Ifu think trAns R ZzZz thnk x2.' (If you think trains are boring, think again.)

Resource found that 70% of museum volunteers nationally are between 45 and 74, with a heavy concentration of 55-year-olds, newly retired. according to The Guardian.