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SMSý SLOGAN MESSAGE SYSTEM
Preamble :
The more the possibilities of diffusion of language are large the more the language tends to be shortened and compressed. This is a paradox we inhabit since we have definitively shifted to a “digital” driven communication.
If the spectrum of communication has broadened fastly during half a century the level of attention/concentration/ has decreased. As we are constantly sollicited as visitors or spectators we cannot afford to take care of every message directed to us.
This tendency to reduce every comunication system to the most compact form is present everywhere: from t-shirts to advertising, from the common youth vocabulary to the computer jargon…
This pervasive syntax has even intruded the telephony system*. At the beginning, the
big corporations had the vision of developing an integral system of wireless communication: the WAP. It was supposed to play sound and video and access the internet from anywhere anytime;- the killing app. In the meantime, to give the customers a taste of what will be the future, they added to their telephones what was supposed to be a transitory technology: the Short System Message, SMS.
It was a nomadic e-mail miniature service. In the minds of the telecom executives, this system was supposed to be quickly superseded by a more ambitious one that would enable the streaming of sound and video. But their customers decided to make intensive use of this modest facility despised by its creators. The discipline of compressing/compacting the language into the shortest expressions and its ease of manipulation made the SMS (Short Message System) the elected technology to communicate private thoughts and sudden changes in rendez-vous or schedule.Today the whole wap project has fallen down because of the market crisis and the today’s selling argument for the cell phone remains this supposed-to- be-obsolete technology.
The project
The aim of SMS SLOGAN MESSAGE SYSTEM is to experiment with the compression of language and its relationship to diffusion and political meaning. To find poetico politic correlation between the ephemere temporality of the SMS and of the slogan, to confront the public aspect of the reclaim/protest aspect of slogan and the intimate reception device of the cell phone.
A database of slogans
short messages have a short live span.They are stocked in memory until the number of 10 and then are destroyed. Slogans are also transitory. On every lips for certain occasions, they survive in the collective memory with little systematic archiving.The idea is to offer a tool for the preservation of protest and artistic slogans.
1.Description of the database:
The database on the Centro de arte website is composed of several fields:
period-context-slogan-comment-name of author(s)-name of person who submit the slogan.
2.Web access:
2.1.Consultation:
This database will provide a web entity to store the slogans and to make them searchable and accessible.
2.2.Adding Content:
On the website the interface allows also to propose new slogans to be integrated to the database. The visitor of the website can fill a form with the newly proposed slogan that will be sent for archiving on the Centro de arte server (this action will be slightly moderated).
2.3.Subscribing to the SLOGAN SYSTEM MESSAGE
on the same page, the visitors are invited to subscribe to the SLOGAN SYSTEM MESSAGE (see below).
3.Diffusion system base on the Short Message System.
For a limited period of time people who subscribe to the SLOGAN MESSAGE SYSTEM receive everyday a new message on their cell phone. Like a reminder of a lost public voice. Each day a new slogan will reach their mobile. Changing the context in which these slogans appear will focus on the format of communication they adopted to catch the attention of the public on the cause they defend or denounce.
To subscribe to the slogans mailing list:
Go to the web page of the project and fill in the form with :
your telephone number ,your country prefix ,your name(optional)and email address(optional)
or send an email to
proyectos@centrodearte.com with subscribe SMS in the title field and the following info in the body:
your telephone number ,your country prefix ,your name(optional)
or send a sms to: international prefix + spanish prefix+ 670.213.983
* In example CODEC for coding decoding device.
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Dernière modification le : 18/12/2001 @ 09:08
Catégorie : draft
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