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Many people can no longer imagine everyday life without a mobile phone, or “Handy”, as it is fondly called in the German-speaking world. Its functions meanwhile far exceed making and receiving phone calls: the “cell” is a camera, fashion accessory, computer, flashlight, video screen, GPS device and much more. As complex as it is contradictory, it forms the core of a whole universe of objects. It influences our consumer behavior, reveals our preferences, and brings in its wake entire complexes of things that wouldn’t exist without the mobile telephone.
Citing examples from the worlds of design and the media, film and contemporary art, the exhibition will focus on these aspects and show the cell phone as an object that – convenient and harmful, bonding and polarizing – contributes to shaping our cultural self-conception.More
Many people can no longer imagine everyday life without a mobile phone, or “Handy”, as it is fondly called in the German-speaking world. Its functions meanwhile far exceed making and receiving phone calls: the “cell” is a camera, fashion accessory, computer, flashlight, video screen, GPS device and much more. As complex as it is contradictory, it forms the core of a whole universe of objects. It influences our consumer behavior, reveals our preferences, and brings in its wake entire complexes of things that wouldn’t exist without the mobile telephone.
Citing examples from the worlds of design and the media, film and contemporary art, the exhibition will focus on these aspects and show the cell phone as an object that – convenient and harmful, bonding and polarizing – contributes to shaping our cultural self-conception.More
Many people can no longer imagine everyday life without a mobile phone, or “Handy”, as it is fondly called in the German-speaking world. Its functions meanwhile far exceed making and receiving phone calls: the “cell” is a camera, fashion accessory, computer, flashlight, video screen, GPS device and much more. As complex as it is contradictory, it forms the core of a whole universe of objects. It influences our consumer behavior, reveals our preferences, and brings in its wake entire complexes of things that wouldn’t exist without the mobile telephone.
Citing examples from the worlds of design and the media, film and contemporary art, the exhibition will focus on these aspects and show the cell phone as an object that – convenient and harmful, bonding and polarizing – contributes to shaping our cultural self-conception.More