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- Title
- Dead to the world: the future of hand-held art
- Author(s)
- Tofts, Darren
- Abstract
- To be dead to the world used to be a benign idiomatic figure for sleep, temporarily removed from consciousness, cradled in the arms of Morpheus. Now it can be identified as a motif for mobile mania, the fixation on the micro-screen as an indispensable accoutrement of daily life. [Introduction]
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences
- Source
- Scan: journal of media arts culture, Vol. 4, no. 3 (December 2007)
- Publication year
- 2007
- Keyword(s)
- Aesthetics; Cellular phones; Communications; Interactive art; Media theory; Mobile phones; Multimedia; Portable telephony; Technology
- Publisher
- Media Department, Macquarie University
- ISSN
- 1449-1818
- Publisher URL
- http://scan.net.au/scan/journal/display.php?journal_id=102
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2007. Paper reproduced here with the kind permission of the publisher.
- Full text
- Peer reviewed
