The NMD festival finishes tomorrow…i’m feeling good about the work and the experiance of it as a whole!!! So, thought i’d post up some of the responses i’ve received to the text messages i’ve been sending out…
95 – Fuck off the police have your number
1 – Who are you and why are you not speaking english?
4 – Mate im english. Call me if u fancy a gibberish convo though!
60 – you must have the wrong number. My name is justin
40 – Sorry, who are u? I am martin and i skateboard. Why are speaking in filiplno? X
42 – Sorrrry who is this? Xxxxxx
So as you can see i got a good varity of responses!!! On average i was receiving around 20 responses a day…
Attached to this post is a photo of the installation of my work in the phillipines and another of the videos in the series…
PHYSICAL:VIRTUAL:FREEDOM NMD11 DAY 3
Today is the first day of NEWMEDIA DAET FESTIVAL 2011 it runs until sunday and theres plenty of content online as well as there being installations in Daet, Camarines Norte, Philippines…
My work for the festival is changing daily and you can follow it at http://www.youtube.com/user/ryanhughesNMD11
where i’m uploading daily videos of myself sending text messages using a minimal aesthetic… any responses i receive are entered onto youtube as a comment on the relevent video
my work PHYSICAL:VIRTUAL:FREEDOM is exploring how networks are formed globally and is attempting to effect real change in physical public space through the content of the text messages
theres a small article appeared on artinasia.com about the festival which can be read…
http://www.artinasia.com/institutionsDetail.php?catID=0&galleryID=2270&view=7&eventID=8080
there.
the facebook is also being updated @ http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100001255475994
PHYSICAL:VIRTUAL:FREEDOM TEST RUN
