Young Tate Mobilography

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About Young Tate Mobilography

Join in the Young Tate Mobilography online art project ( www.tate.org.uk/youngtate/project_files/mobilography/) by submitting your photographs to this group.

Mobile phones and portable technology are everywhere – but do we use them to their full potential? How attached are you to your mobile phone? Join in this online art project with Young Tate and the artist Tracey Moberly and explore the world through your mobile phone.

Mobilography* creates a visual language which captures symbols and works of art in your immediate environment. The Young Tate group looked at Mark Wallinger’s ‘State Britain’ display, the recent Hogarth exhibition and the ‘Victorian Paintings of Modern Life’ gallery at Tate Britain to create a visual narrative that represent moments in and around the location of Tate Britain. Now you can contribute too. Explore the themes below and then use your mobile phone to collect images following the themes to build up a contemporary visual narrative of individual experiences of your life and immediate environment.

Themes – Animals, birds, blue, bottoms, boxes, branches, candles, cards, dice, flowers, hands, kiss, leaves, lines, locks, orange, together, plastic, cups, portraits, eyes, rainbow, red, sad, signs, thorns, water, wheel.

SUBMITTING YOUR PHOTOGRAPH
To submit a photograph to the Mobilography project, simply join this group and contribute your photograph anytime.

BEFORE YOU ADD YOUR PHOTOGRAPH
The photograph must
• have been taken with a mobile device with an in-built camera that was not originally designed for professional photography. e.g. a phone or palm pilot
• illustrate and be tagged with one of the themes of the project: Animals, birds, blue, bottoms, boxes, branches, candles, cards, dice, flowers, hands, kiss, leaves, lines, locks, orange, together, plastic, cups, portraits, eyes, rainbow, red, sad, signs, thorns, water, wheel.

Note: By adding your photo to this group, you are giving Tate permission to display your photo on the Mobilography pages of the Young Tate website and in other online and offline material to promote this project.


*Mobilography (from "mobilis" (lat.) - movable and "grapho"
(gr.) - to write) is a branch of photography that creates pictures
using such devices with built-in cameras, as cellular phones, palm
pilots, compasses, binoculars, lighters, etc, not originally intended
to be used for professional photography.

http://www.tate.org.uk/youngtate/project_files/mobilography/