CellSeeUs.com is a worldwide real-time community driven art performance showcasing how the widespread use of cell phone cameras and mobile virtual technologies has changed the way we see, literally, as well as the whole aura of photography and video. Simply snap a picture or shoot a video with your phone, send it directly to pic@cellseeus.com or vid@cellseeus.com, and watch it appear instantly before the world's eye.

Cell phone cameras afford an ease of recording, sending, sharing, and seeing, and the cell phones in our pockets have become as close to a physical appendage as our own eyes. They extend and expand us. Without them, we feel naked, isolated, unconnected… the way we might feel if we lived in a world without art.

Because these devices are frequently with us, the experience of seeing what someone else someplace else sees produces an odd charge of connectivity and gives banal moments deeper meaning. Whether walking down the street, shopping at the grocery store, waiting at the laundry-mat or exploring remote wilderness, we can show the world what we see as we are seeing it. Art and life, material and immaterial, physical and virtual all collapse into each other.

The wireless age will surely continue to surprise, excite and frighten us as we experience is effects in nearly every aspect of our lives, harnessing new and mysterious powers to transcend limits previously unnoticed. We invite you to partake in CellSeeUs by using your own cell phone camera to showcase the nooks and crannies of your world. Together, we hope to make an ever-shifting digital collage of pictures and videos that extends the frontiers of shared experience.

 

Ben Bloch
Co-Founder CellSeeUs