Such mediated environments may involve the use of ubiquitous computing, communication networks and mobile or locative media technologies. Participants in this project are artists and scientists who are active in creating interactive media art or pursuing innovative interdisciplinary research and wish to collaborate in order to create interactive media artworks.
Anna Dumitriu's participation in the project includes three new collaborative works with artists from Austria, Finland, USA, Ireland and Germany, involving interactive installations, locative media games, and a project close to Anna's heart involving Arctic soil ecosystems from a bacterial point of view. For this work she is currently collaborating with a microbiologist at the Finnish Forestry Institute and an Arctic climate specialist.
The e-MobiLArt project aims to provide selected participants with a multicultural, interdisciplinary context, by supporting their travels, collaboration and the exhibition of their work. Selected participants form groups and work together in order to develop their projects. The project involves three workshops taking place at the University of Athens (Greece), the University of Lapland (Finland) and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. In these workshops, participants are provided with necessary technical, theoretical and curatorial support and will be aided in starting and developing their collaboration. Over the summer break Anna attended workshops in Athens and Rovaniemi, the final workshop in the series will take place in Vienna in February 2009. The resulting interactive installation artworks will be exhibited in 2009 in Thessaloniki in Greece and Katowice in Poland with the support of a team of established curators and theorists, active in the intersecting fields of art, science and technology.
