About

About

The Mobicase portable units are made of lightweight material and are comfortable to wear. Each unit provides space for a laptop, cables, headset, microphone, video camera, photo camera and other technical tools. In order to be constantly connected to the Internet, the backpacks are portable wifi hotspots, providing constant possibility to add new data to the archive.

During the workshop for 8 participants, Mobicase teams function as independent media units. The teams, led by various Upgrade! International artists walk with public participants throughout the city of Skopje and the Chain Reaction sites in order to document whatever they find interesting in that context. Because the leading Upgrade! International artists come from different cultural and creative backgrounds and have differing technical expertise, each group explores the city with unique focus and methods.

After a 2 hour walk, each group commonly edits the material they have collected and upload it on the community website. In this way, an increasing public archive of the Chain Reaction and current Skopje city events is being built. This community website functions as a tool for collaborative documentation and as a forum for feedback on the Upgrade! events. The whole process of the Mobicase project is a “Live Sampling of the city and the festival.”

Stéphanie Boisset, David Farine