MOBILESKINO is a collective of filmmakers, film technicians, animators and sound designers. The projects are situated in the conflicting area of digital and analogue media. Our research in the field of classic analogue film technique and interacvtivity combines mechanical, electronical and numerical technologies to develop new forms of interactive projection devices.
MOBILESKINO was founded in the year 2000. They started out with more performative works like The World‘s Longest Film Loop at Kurzfilmtage Winterthur or the participative documentary project Reportage.01 performed at the VIPER media festival in 2001. With the increasing digitisation of the film world the subject of their works started more and more to revolve around the clash of analogue and digital film culture. With their work Save Your Digital Data they picked up on the subject of the physical permanence of the new digital media. In this project
MOBILESKINO offered analogue archiving of other artist‘s digital media projects through a transfer to 8mm film in situ at VIPER festival of 2002. A long lasting and ongoing project is the Game Arcade where MOBILESKINO
replicates early arcade game machines with the help of analogue technology. With this project they started to convert classic projection deviceds to be electrically controlled. The Game Arcade has since been presented at various international Film Festivals and Art Spaces. High Noon is a further development of the concept. Film projectors are controlled by mobile phones incorporated in a duel game concept.
In their latest project Do8Yourself they broached the issue of the slow dissappearance of film stock. Huge amounts of hardware for projecting analogue film still exist but with no film to project they are doomed to stand still.
MOBLESKINO developed their own digital to film process, presenting the results with a hand-cranked projector in the tradition of earliest film exhibition to interconnect the present technology with the past.
EXHIBITIONS
2000
VIPER (MEDIA ART FESTIVAL), BASEL (CH)// REPORTAGE 01 FOUND FOOTAGE/8MM-FILM (30MIN.)
2001
VIPER, BASEL (CH)// SAVE YOUR DIGITAL DATA! INSTALLATION/16MM-FILM (15MIN.)
2002
INT. KURZFILMTAGE WINTERTHUR (CH)// THE WORLDS LONGEST FILMLOOP /PERFORMANCE
2003
SWOMP – INTERACTIVE WELLNESS-PARK, TONIMOLKEREI ZÜRICH (CH)// GAME ARCADE INSTALLATION
2004
CONTEMPORARY CULTURE CONVENTION CCC, REITHALLE BERN (CH) // ANALOG IS BACK! 8MM PJ-ING
KUNSTRAUM WALCHENTURM ZÜRICH (CH)// ANALOG IS BACK! 8MM PJ-ING
2005
BEAM ON, KINO CAMERA, BASEL (CH)// GIGA BITES BACK! MOVIETRAILER AND TEASER (16MM)
SWISS ART AWARDS 2005, BASEL (CH)// PIXELPLASTER INSTALLATION
ART AWARDS KUNSTKREDIT BASEL, KUNSTHAUS BASELLAND (CH)// HIGH NOON INSTALLATION
2006
VIPER BASEL (CH)// PIXELBLASTER INSTALLATION
VIDEOEX ZÜRICH (CH)// GAME ARCADE INSTALLATION
PLUG.IN BASEL (CH)// G.A.M.E.S. - GAME ARCADE ENTERTAINMENT MUSIC SYSTEMS
2007
INTERNATIONALE SCHMALFILMTAGE DRESDEN (D)// G.A.M.E.S. - PERFORMANCE
AUSSTELLUNGSRAUM KLINGENTAL, BASEL (CH)// SOLO EXHIBITION AND HIGH NOON PREMIERE
ART AWARD 07 BY ALEXANDER CLAVEL FOUNDATION, RIEHEN (CH)// TURNTABLE CINEMA
2008
INTERNATIONALE SCHMALFILMTAGE DRESDEN (D)// HIGH NOON INSTALLATION
IFFR, INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM (NL)// GAME ARCADE & HIGH NOON INSTALLATION
2009
CCCB CENTRE CULTURA CONTEMPORÀNIA BARCELONA (ESP)// GAME ARCADE UND HIGH NOON
SHIFT!FESTIVAL BASEL (CH)// CINEMA RAPIDE: LA TETE INFERNALE
2010
MOSTRA DE CINEMA PERIFERICO LA CORUNA (ESP)// GAME ARCADE UND HIGH NOON
DOCK 18 ZÜRICH (CH)// SUPER 8 BIT PERFOMANCE
BUENZLI 19 THE SWISS DEMOSCENE EVENT ZÜRICH (CH)// GAME ARCADE
BENZEHOLZ RAUM FÜR ZEITGENÖSSISCHE KUNST MEGGEN LUZERN (CH)/ „DER FILMFRESSER“
2011
CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU PARIS, PLAY IT YOURSELF (F)// HIGH NOON
LA FETE DE L`ANIMATION LILLE (F)// GAME ARCADE
2012
FANTONCHE BADEN (CH), TURN ON THE FUTURE // GAME ARCADE
2013
SMITH ROW, SUFFOLK (UK), FLICKER: ARTISTS & SUPER8 // LA TETE INFERNALE
KUNSTRAUM WALCHENTURM ZÜRICH, GAMEZFESTIVAL // GAME ARCADE
HAUS FÜR ELEKTRONISCHE KÜNSTE BASEL, MAKING TERRITORIES // DO8YOURSELF
2014
ART&ARCADE, MU EINDHOVER (NL) // GAME ARCADE
CUMULUS FESTIVAL, Amsterdam (NL) - Do8Yourself
POLITIK IM FREIEN THEATER theater Freiburg (D) - perfomance machine: Analogue Youtube
2015
VIDEOEX ZÜRICH (CH)// DO8YOURSELF
PLAYGAMEZ STADTBIBLIOTHEK STUTTGART (D) // GAME ARCADE INSTALLATION
2016
INTERNATIONALE SCHMALFILMTAGE DRESDEN (D)// DO8YOURSELF
