Table Of ContentTHE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION
TO MOBILE MEDIA ART
In this companion, a diverse, international, and interdisciplinary group of contributors and editors
examine the rapidly expanding, far-reaching field of mobile media as it intersects with art across
a range of spaces—theoretical, practical, and conceptual.
As a vehicle for—and of—the everyday, mobile media is recalibrating the relationship between
art and digital networked media and reshaping how creative practices such as writing, photog-
raphy, video art, and filmmaking are being conceptualized and practised. In exploring these in-
novations, The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media Art pulls together comprehensive, culturally
nuanced, and interdisciplinary approaches; considerations of broader media ecologies and histories
and political, social and cultural dynamics; and critical and considered perspectives on the inter-
sections between mobile media and art.
This book is the definitive publication for researchers, artists and students interested in compre-
hending all the various aspects of mobile media art, covering digital media and culture, internet
studies, games studies, anthropology, sociology, geography, media and communication, cultural
studies, and design.
Distinguished Professor Larissa Hjorth is a creative practitioner, digital ethnographer and Direc-
tor of the Design & Creative Practice ECP Platform at RMIT University. Hjorth has published
over 100 publications on mobile media studies—recent publications include Haunting Hands (with
Cumiskey 2017), Understanding Social Media (with Hinton, 2nd Edition 2019), Creative Practice Eth-
nographies (with Harris, Jungnickel and Coombs 2020) and Ambient Play (with Richardson 2020).
Professor Adriana de Souza e Silva is the Director of the Mobile Gaming Research Lab at the
Department of Communication at North Carolina State University (NCSU). Dr. de Souza e Silva
is the co-editor and co-author of several books, including Net-Locality: Why Location Matters in a
Networked World (with Gordon 2011), Mobile Interfaces in Public Spaces: Control, Privacy, and Urban
Sociability (with Frith 2012), Mobility and Locative Media: Mobile Communication in Hybrid Spaces
(with Sheller 2014) and Hybrid Play (with Glover-Rijkse 2020).
Klare Lanson is a performance poet and current PhD Candidate at RMIT University. Recent
collaborative and interdisciplinary art projects are #wanderingcloud (2012–2015), Commute (2013–
2016) and mobile art ethnography TouchOn/TouchOff (2017). Publications include Digital Cultures &
Society (2019), Min-a-rets Poetry Journal (2018), thephonebook.com (2002), Cordite Poetry Review, Over-
land Journal and Realtime Arts, and she was also co-editor of the 40-year-old Australian literary
anthology Going Down Swinging.
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THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION
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Edited by Larissa Hjorth, Adriana de Souza e Silva,
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CONTENTS
List of Figures x
List of Color Insert Figures xvi
List of Tables xvii
List of Contributors xviii
Acknowledgements xxix
List of Abbreviations xxx
Mobile Media Art: An Introduction 1
Klare Lanson, Adriana de Souza e Silva, and Larissa Hjorth
SECTION ONE
Forerunning Mobile Media Art 9
1 Making Mobile Connections: Golan Levin in Conversation with Klare Lanson 11
2 Magic Spectacles and Portable Boxes: Notes Toward a Media Archaeology
of Mobile Media 21
Erkki Huhtamo
3 Mobile Art: From the WAP Promises to the App Bubbles 34
Giselle Beiguelman
4 From Early Soundings to Locative Listening in Mobile Media Art 46
Cat Hope
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Contents
SECTION TWO
Mobile Media Art Practice 57
5 Uncomfortable Interactions: Blast Theory’s Matt Adams in Conversation
with Rowan Wilken 59
6 Mobile Listening, Disruptive Ambient Music, and Public
Art Projects in Madrid 69
Amparo Lasén and Massimiliano Casu
7 Performing with the Aether: An Aesthetics of Tactical Feminist Practice 81
Nancy Mauro-Flude
8 Amplify your Feminism: Social Media and Feminist Locative Art 96
Caitlin McGrane
SECTION THREE
Hybrid Realities 107
9 Sounding Place: Teri Rueb in Conversation with Adriana de Souza e Silva 109
10 Historicizing Hybrid Spaces in Mobile Media Art 117
Adriana de Souza e Silva and Ragan Glover-Rijkse
11 Algorithmic Gardening: Questions of Mobility, Hybridity, and Infrastructure 128
Shannon McMullen and Fabian Winkler
12 Back into the Locative: Theory and Practice in Urban Augmented
Reality, 1999–2016 137
Joshua McWhirter
13 URBAN APPOINTMENT: A Possible Rendez-Vous with
the City (HUMO) 147
Brian Massumi
SECTION FOUR
Selfies 157
14 Salutations to the Selfie: Kate Durbin in Conversation with Klare Lanson 159
15 Gendered Art, Work, and Self-Representation: A Comparative Analysis
of Camera-Phonographic and Painted Self-Portraits 164
Chelsea Butkowski and Lee Humphreys
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Contents
16 When the Face is Data 174
Theresa M. Senft
17 Selfies and Dronies as Relational Political Practices 183
Grant Bollmer
SECTION FIVE
Play and Games 193
18 Mobilizing Audience and Playful Disobedience: pvi collective’s
Kelli McCluskey and Steve Bull in Conversation with Klare Lanson 195
19 Mobile Mapping and Play 202
Sybille Lammes and Clancy Wilmott
20 Tapping in: Playful Mobile Media Art in Australia 214
Hugh Davies and Will Balmford
21 Ambient Play and Background Gaming: Reflecting on Quotidian
Creative Practices 226
Ingrid Richardson
22 Re-imagining Bushland Settings Through Location-based
AR Mobile Gameplay 236
Matthew Riley, Troy Innocent, and Rowan Wilken
SECTION SIX
Co-Design and Space 249
23 Listening to Circumstance: Duncan Speakman in
Conversation with Klare Lanson 251
24 Inventive Approaches to Data Tracking in More-Than-
Human Worlds 259
Jacina Leong, Larissa Hjorth, and Jaz Hee-Jeong Choi
25 Open Prototyping: A Framework for Combining Art and
Innovation in the IoT and Smart Cities 270
Drew Hemment, Joanna Bletcher, and Saskia Coulson
26 Trojan Horse: An (Incomplete) Lexicon of Art on Wheels 284
Gretchen Coombs
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Contents
27 Understanding Mobile Media through Co-design Workshops 296
Fumitoshi Kato
SECTION SEVEN
Sensing New Visualities 305
28 FutureEverything, all the Time: Drew Hemment in
Conversation with Klare Lanson 307
29 Mobile Photography and Artistic Activism in the “Instagram” Museum 313
Daniel Palmer
30 Mobile Street Photography: Continued, Collective, and Contested
Decisive Moments 324
Edgar Gómez Cruz
31 Shanzhai: Affective Assemblages and Technovisuality 335
Helen Grace, 葛海崙
32 Platform Poetics 351
Emile Zile in Conversation with Klare Lanson
SECTION EIGHT
Performing the Mobile 357
33 Collective Chaos and Joyful Mobility: Charlie Todd in
Conversation with Klare Lanson 359
34 Mobile Films as Mobile Art: More than Textual 364
Marsha Berry
35 Mobile Cinematic VR—MCVR 375
Max Schleser
36 Wearing Data: Intentions and Tensions of Art and Design in
Performance using Wearables 387
Camille Baker
37 Networked Experience and Continual Re-orientation 399
Martin Rieser
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Contents
SECTION NINE
Urban Interventions 411
38 Becoming Alexa: Lauren McCarthy in Conversation with Jacina Leong 413
39 Quotidian Record: The Musical Interpretation of Mobile Phone Location Data 418
Brian House
40 The City as Performative Object 426
PolakVanBekkum
41 Encontros: An Artwork on Borders and Networked Mobilities 438
Luisa Paraguai and Gilbertto Prado
42 Critical and Creative Approaches to Digital Cultural Heritage with
Augmented Reality 448
Victoria Szabo
SECTION TEN
Critical Making and Future Directions 463
43 Doing Critical Creative Practice and Social Research: Kat Jungnickel in
Conversation with Larissa Hjorth 465
44 Mobile LIDAR Mediality as Artistic Anti-Environment 470
Julia M. Hildebrand and Mimi Sheller
45 XR: Crossing and Interfering Artistic Media Spaces 482
Nanna Verhoeff and Paulien Dresscher
46 One Good Death: Tactile, Haptic, and Empathic Codesign for
End-of-life Experience 493
Leah Heiss, Matiu Bush, and Marius Foley
47 Playful Resistance of Data Futures 506
Larissa Hjorth and Sam Hinton
Index 521
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