Artistic expression goes mobile

Wildlight is a new film channel, supported by the Irish Film Board, that delivers short films to mobile phones.

Nokia sponsors Wildlight' s Darklight festival, which debuted in Dublin in 2005. This year's festival takes place in Temple Bar, Dublin, from June 22to 25. See also http://europe .nokia.com/nokia/0,,88120,00.html

Nokia's Mobile shorts competition is at http://www.nokiashorts.com/flash.htm

Pocket Shorts, which funds the production of films for mobile phones, debuted at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2004. See http://www.blinkmedia.org/blinkmedia/index.asp. The Rotterdam Film Festival initiated the One Take film-making with mobile phones this year. See www.cinema.nl/xtrasmall.

The New York School of Visual Arts is planning a major exhibition of art made on mobile phones. Curated by Charles Traub among others, it will be an open invitation to artists, with no criteria for inclusion or exclusion. The exhibition will "take the pulse" of current artistic creativity. See www.sva.edu

To view early interactive work, see http://www.dunneandraby.co.uk/designing/FLIRT/FLIRT.html

For short films see http://www.wildlight.tv/ and http://www.darklight.ie/

To see Suspicious Nottingham, see http:// www.bbc.co.uk:80/nottingham/ content/image_galleries/suspicious_notts_mobile_phone_art_gallery.shtml?2