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TV news, radio interviews and Video of MobiSpray event @ University of Helsinki

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:28:58 +0000

The Media artist Jürgen Scheible painted the main building of University of Helsinki at Senate Square and three other buildings in different campuses during a MobiSpray event of University of Helsinki on 18.1.-21.1.2010. Here you find a video documentation, TV news coverage and radio interviews of the event. Enjoy!

Watch here a longer video (7 min) of the event.

You can find photos of the event here.

More info on the event can be found from here (in finnish only).

MobiSpray on TV news (Finnish YLE channel) on 18.1.2010

MobiSpray on TV news (Finnish MTV3 channel) on 18.1.2010

Listen to radio interviews

Photos of MobiSpray event @ Helsinki University

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:15:50 +0000

Here are some photos that were taken during the MobiSpray event @ Helsinki University from 18th to 21st of January 2010. Enjoy!

Main building

Meilahti campus

Kumpula campus

Viikki campus

Find more photos from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/28976251@N07/sets/72157623254706686/

MobiSpray event @ Helsinki University

admin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:18:47 +0000

If you happen to be in Helsinki on Monday 18th - 21st January 2010 come by and watch MobiLenin live in action, painting buildings of Helsinki university. The media art event celebrates the new era for the university and its 370-year history. Find more info from this blog: Mobispraying HU.

Dates and time of the MobiSpray sessions:
* Ma 18.1.2010 Keskustakampus, Senaatintori (Unionink. 34) klo 16-20
* Ti 19.1.2010 Meilahti, Biomedicum 1 (Haartmaninkatu 8 ) klo 16-20
* Ke 20.1.2010 Kumpula, A.I.Virtasen aukio (Gustaf Hällströminkatu 1 ) klo 16-20
* To 21.1.2010 Viikki, Biokeskus 1 (Kanslerinkaari) 16-20

MobiSpray in action

admin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:52:42 +0000

This video shows the artist MobiLenin using his MobiSpray art tool to paint buildings, airplanes, ships and other objects around the world. MobiLenin’s digital ephemeral art is about transforming a building or object so it acquires a new power to communicate with artist or viewer and become alive and of value on its own account.

MobiSpray in action from MobiSpray on Vimeo.

The MobiSpray art is about engaging in space, bringing extra tension or play to challenge peoples assumptions about an object or place. Similar to the artist Christo who uses buildings and object from the environment to create ephemeral art by wrapping them up, MobiLenin uses buildings and objects to create highly ephemeral art by painting on them with light and his Mobile phone. MobiLenin offers his MobiSpray live action painting show to event organizers globally.

MobiSpray at Art Basel 2009

admin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:31:15 +0000

MobiSpray was this year shown at Art Basel - but not in the traditional way as all the other artworks were, no, I hi-jacked the event and put it up in guerilla manner, in the MobiLenin style. Check out some of my trophies below. I’ll put up a video a bit later. I found the Art Basel this year highly inspiring and really worth visiting. I met many interesting people and had good talks.

Spraying outdoors on the huge frontside of the Art Basel Exhibition main hall. Yes, it was done by me.

Every evening I painted the citiy of Basel in some location that I was tempted to change into the looks as I want it. Here, I painted at the Marktplatz.

This is in some quater in the city centre somewhere.

MobiSpray featured on Reuters news TV

admin — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:46:13 +0000

Reuters.com news - the source for breaking news videos and top stories, showing video clips about business, technology, sports and entertainment - has featured MobiSpray on their website via a 1min 22sec. video. Reuters Technology Correspondent Matt Cowan captured Jürgen Scheible (’MobiLenin’) demoing MobiSpray at the Mobile World Congress MWC 2009 in Barcelona, Spain, where he also interviewed Black Eyed Peas singer will.i.am and Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey (can be seen here in a separate video).

Painting the city wherever I go

admin — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:59:57 +0000

I love it to be able to make my environment look as I want it to be. It is liberating. Because of this I started to embrace the cities and places I go these days much more than I ever did. It is fascinating to be able to change the looks of my reality. I feel the world is giving me a lot - it inspires me, heavily. And I want to turn this inspirational energy into something new, unexpected, kicking - my MobiSpray paintings.

During the last few weeks I had the chance to travel to New York, Melbourne, Sydney, London and Vancouver. And to give you a quick overview of my creations in various places, I put up here a few collages up. Enjoy!

From left upper corner: Vancouver: Siwash rock Stanley park, Science world,Waterfront buildings, Canada place, At gallery, London Smartphone show party.

From left upper corner: Sydney Potts point neighborhood, Federation Square Melbourne, Sydney Opera House, London Big Ben, Parliament house, Tate Modern museum London.

Guggenheim Museum in New York painted by MobiLenin with MobiSpray

admin — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:41:54 +0000

The best ever mobispraying that I did so far was the Guggenheim museum in New york. It had the right size, is purly white and is completely dark at night. But above all it has such a fascinating shape that it makes you wanna mobispray forever.

Find more photos on Flickr here.

Watch the video:

I believe one day I will need to go back to paint Guggenheim again, because it is real fascination to do it.

MobiSpray - How does it work?

admin — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:53:54 +0000

Ever want to repaint your neighbor’s house? Or pet polar bear? MobiSpray allows light-based painting by using a mobile phone as spray can. With only a phone and a surface you can paint anywhere, anytime on anything. The spray-painting follows your hand gestures in real-time, while spraying intensity and color change via keypad. Whether you are in the woods or the city MobiSpary lets you paint BIG. And, the freedom to intentionally change your surroundings at the scale of your choosing opens doors of creativity and imagination. Turn your reality into something new, unexpected, surprising and unpredictable.

Check this video to see how MobiSpray works:

Find many other videos and photos of SprayingSessions from this blog via the side bar on the right.

UFO Houses in Taiwan & Mobispray

admin — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:18:08 +0000

When I was in Taiwan in August to teach there, I had to visit the world famaous UFO houses at Sanjhih, north of Taipei - since it was closeby where we stayed - in ‘uncle Lee’s house’. My greatest wish was to MobiSpray on the UFO houses, and so I did or lets say we did. I invited a few friends from the MIT Media Lab with whom I stayed with in Taiwan to come with me.

Watch the video:

And we had an extraordinary experience. When we entered the site the wind was blowing strangely and strong, but also the grass made loud noises caused by the wind. And of course it was dark, since it was night as we wanted to use MobiSpray to make some UFO houses look as we wanted them to be. For one of our Taiwanese fellow girl it become too eerie after a short time, so she left. The rest of us set up the gear and we started spraying - and it was totally exiting to mobispray on this weirdly, but nicely designed UFO houses.

I learned originally about the UFO houses a few days before leaving to Taiwan through an article in the German online magazin Spiegel: http://einestages.spiegel.de. Title of the article was ‘Die Geisterstadt der Außerirdischen’ meaning the ghost city of the aliens. And of course the shape of the UFO-houses was something I had to try out as canvas for MobiSpray.

Find more photos at Flickr here.

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