Deutschland in Japan 2005/2006
"MobLab: Japanese-German media camp 2005"
2005/10/15-11/6
A live art & communication project with young artists from Japan and Germany (MobNauts),
who develop creative ideas with mobile technology while traveling Japan in a bus.
Welcome to the mobile laboratory! You can see where bus is from Buslog, and check artists, driver and reporter's diary from here.
"The Road Movie"by exonemo shows real-time picture from the bus!
English artile on MobLab appeared!
You can read the article online:
http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200510290076.html

The Road Movie again!

The Road Movie by exonemo will be happen on Aug 5th and 6th in the event "Technoporitan Museum" at Namba parks in Osaka. Lozi/Yosuke Kawamura and exonemo will show their works inside the Mobium bus as "dorkbΩt tΩurist". Please join them.

"The Road Movie", exonemo's project won the Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica 2006

We are delighted to annouce that "The Road Movie", the project by exonemo(Yae Akaiwa and Kensuke Sembo) for the MobLab was awarded the Golden Nica Award(Grand Prix) in the category of Net Vision at the international electronic art competition, Prix Ars Electronica 2006 in Linz, Austria.
Thank you to all those who helped and participated in the project.

The full journey for The Road Movie is archived in its entirety at the following sites.

-The Road Movie "Origami Road Movie"
http://exonemo.com/RM/

You can read the article in the 12th issue of Japan's bilingual art quarterly "ART iT".

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We were able to successfully complete "Moblab: Japanese-German Media Camp 2005" held from October 15 to Novermber 6. We received huge response at each host area and online. In February 2006, we presented the project report at the media festival "transmediale".


The data collected by the MonNauts on tour (image, sound, movie and otherdata) is open to the public as open data.


Please, feel free to download any data and develop your own MobLab.

opendata> http://moblab.org/opendata/index_e.html

Organizer: MobLab Committee, Goethe-Institut
Support: The Japan Foundation
Patronage: Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Japan
Sponsor: CAMPINGWORKS CO., LTD
Special cooperation: IAMAS, ICC, Sendai Mediatheque, YCAM, Transmediale (Berlin)
Technical support: IAMAS
Cooperation: Saito IMI Graduate School, Fujino workshop for art, Mobium, Yokohama Triennale,DHL,Lufthansa

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