1．For about three weeks, a team of young artists ("MobNauts") from Japan and Germany travel across Japan in a bus that serves at once as a mobile laboratory, stopping over at several stations that host MobLab events.
2．Each MobNaut utilizes mobile technology to work out projects dealing with the permanent change of location. During the event period, information on each project will be added to the MobLab Website. Planned are also interactive projects enabling visitors around the world to participate via the Internet. A Web log will be established to provide latest news and facts of the journey, including whereabouts of the bus, news from the passengers, and details of events held at each station along the way. In addition, the mobility of the bus will allow the MobNauts to stage impromptu events that will be announced spontaneously.
3．Interesting collaborations are to be expected from the MobNauts, who will inspire each other while on the bus together. Exchange with local people in each visited region will further generate new ideas that will be incorporated in the MobNauts' projects.
4．Each institution that accommodates the MobNauts for several days will plan and host improvised events with local guest artists, including workshops, live performances, talk sessions and others.
5．MobLab will convert a bus that was used by Yosuke Kawamura's Mobium (www.mobium.org/) team this summer for a similar project, and Kawamura himself will actually be driving the bus. The "MobLabization" of the bus will take place in early October at IAMAS in Ogaki.
6．IAMAS has assembled a research team to work out a special information system, and above this is developing an original archive system for MobLab. During the event period, images, sounds, texts and GPS data will be collected through sensors, mobile telephones, video cameras and others, whereas the bus functions as an interface. Original MobLab documents will be created and published with the help of a mapping system and a blog site. The pool of data will not only be utilized by the MobNauts, but through storing the "open data" on the Web, MobLab will encourage future projects to reuse and expand these data.
7．While referring to a number of both past and current projects, MobLab seeks to exhibit originality in its unique form of application of mobile technology, a multilayered quality interlinking diverse elements, and a sharable system. Projects referred to by MobLab will be filed under "research" on the Website, sorted by topic.
2．Each MobNaut utilizes mobile technology to work out projects dealing with the permanent change of location. During the event period, information on each project will be added to the MobLab Website. Planned are also interactive projects enabling visitors around the world to participate via the Internet. A Web log will be established to provide latest news and facts of the journey, including whereabouts of the bus, news from the passengers, and details of events held at each station along the way. In addition, the mobility of the bus will allow the MobNauts to stage impromptu events that will be announced spontaneously.
3．Interesting collaborations are to be expected from the MobNauts, who will inspire each other while on the bus together. Exchange with local people in each visited region will further generate new ideas that will be incorporated in the MobNauts' projects.
4．Each institution that accommodates the MobNauts for several days will plan and host improvised events with local guest artists, including workshops, live performances, talk sessions and others.
5．MobLab will convert a bus that was used by Yosuke Kawamura's Mobium (www.mobium.org/) team this summer for a similar project, and Kawamura himself will actually be driving the bus. The "MobLabization" of the bus will take place in early October at IAMAS in Ogaki.
6．IAMAS has assembled a research team to work out a special information system, and above this is developing an original archive system for MobLab. During the event period, images, sounds, texts and GPS data will be collected through sensors, mobile telephones, video cameras and others, whereas the bus functions as an interface. Original MobLab documents will be created and published with the help of a mapping system and a blog site. The pool of data will not only be utilized by the MobNauts, but through storing the "open data" on the Web, MobLab will encourage future projects to reuse and expand these data.
7．While referring to a number of both past and current projects, MobLab seeks to exhibit originality in its unique form of application of mobile technology, a multilayered quality interlinking diverse elements, and a sharable system. Projects referred to by MobLab will be filed under "research" on the Website, sorted by topic.
Live event party
The MobNaut sponsored outdoor event even held at each overnight location is an event where local artists will be selected from the general audience or privately invited to perform for mainly musical exhibition. This will be a casual event that will include barbeques and live bus painting. And if we’re lucky, these artists will get along well with MobNaut and join us in our next event…
Bus Painting Event
At each site, we will try to have as may people as possible draw freely on our canvas bus exterior. After MobNaut and graffiti artists painted the bus MobLab-style, through a completely spontaneous element, graffiti concessions were given. Mixed within is the must-see calligraphy by AGF.
The MobNaut sponsored outdoor event even held at each overnight location is an event where local artists will be selected from the general audience or privately invited to perform for mainly musical exhibition. This will be a casual event that will include barbeques and live bus painting. And if we’re lucky, these artists will get along well with MobNaut and join us in our next event…
Bus Painting Event
At each site, we will try to have as may people as possible draw freely on our canvas bus exterior. After MobNaut and graffiti artists painted the bus MobLab-style, through a completely spontaneous element, graffiti concessions were given. Mixed within is the must-see calligraphy by AGF.