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September 08, 2008
GPS Films
Our friend Scott Hessels developed this revolutionary open source software to allow films to be assembled in different ways depending on your GPS location.
GPS Film is a new way of watching a movie that’s based on the viewer’s location. The system is a new media artwork from Scott Hessels and is released as an open source application that runs on any GPS-enabled mobile phone or PDA.
The first film made specifically for the system, Singaporean filmmaker Kenny Tan's "Nine Lives" is a chase comedy of mistaken identity that unfolds as the viewer explores nine neighborhoods in the island's downtown.
Scott Hessels is an internationally recognized media artist and filmmaker who focuses on mixing cinema with innovative technologies to create new media experiences.
His work has exhibited at some of the world’s top museums and his films have shown in the leading international film festivals.
After coming to Singapore from UCLA in Los Angeles, he currently creates his research and teaches at the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University.
Other Artworks by Scott Hessels : www.dshessels.com
GPS Film is one of his series of artworks that are ‘cinema generating systems’—experimental types of film players.
Explains Hessels,
“As a kid in the 1960’s, I was the first player generation—I had eight-tracks, cassettes, reel-to-reels, walkmans, and of course television. I’m interested in how a machine that changes the recording, assembling, presenting, or context of film can radically change the experience and the ways that stories are told.
The GPS Film artwork puts a new tool out there to let film be put together in a way that’s unique to a mobile culture.”
Posted by Michael at September 8, 2008 07:17 AM