no more cheesy cell phone

The artist Doffing, who runs San Francisco art gallery Start SOMA, is betting he's not the only one. Clip-art-style services that is the newest way of forming the art. And he launched his own wallpaper website “Start Mobile” in January. He said it will serve as an various source of cell-phone art for those who prefer pop and street art to kitties and puppies. The cell-phone wallpaper market brought in around $100 million this year, according to Julie Ask, a wireless analyst with Jupiter Research. However, many customers actually want the images Doffing sees as cheesy, and analysts predict the market could stagnate or decline in the future, she said. This is a sharp contrast to phone products like games and ring tones, whose sales are on the rise. Therefore, he decides to devote into the clip-art on the cell phone market.
The cell phone market is very enormous and as the number of consumer is keep increasing and the technology of the cell phone is keep improving, the basic and normal style of the cell phone can not satisfy the consumer anymore. Therefore, those cell phone company are trying to re-design and forming the new style or they even follow the trend in the fashion field in order to attract more consumer. As the number of the cell phone users is keep increasing now, the appearance of the cell phone is not the only concern that attracts the consumer. Moreover, the company starts to produce some limit edition cell phone or corporate with other famous fashion brands. For example, the one of the biggest cell phone company LG is promoting a new cell phone which is corporate with the world famous fashion brand PARDA to produce a all touch screen cell phone, and it also is the limit edition. Consumer is so crazy about it. Therefore, from this example we can see that Cell Phone Company will using some special attraction to push the consumer to buy something they do not need.
Resource: Rachel Mertez , No more cheesy cell phone
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/01/69961

the artist's view of technology

The artist, Nancy Worthington’s art combines hands-on entertainment with social observations and educational content which bringing humanity to technology through art. She embraces viewer sharing and emphasizing that through physical involvement. Her work reflects human conflict with nature and with our technological civilization. A vital part of this art is the exposure Worthington gives to the ambiguity, inconsistency and polarity of the human condition and it’s of social and psychological sting. Her images become a catalyst to awaken consciousness and to facilitate change through awareness for a better, more humane world.
After read this article that makes me feels more concern with the conflict condition and the problem underneath the technology and human society. Usually the view of the artist can reflect the question underneath the society and the problem that they point out is usually very concretive and serious. There are tons of examples that show the divergence situation of the improvement of technology and the shocked society. For example, that the cell phone is greatest invention in recent year and it is dramatic influence people’s daily life on positive side and negative side. Cell phone indeed helps improving the convenient of the communication. However, the over usage of the modern technology that might makes people think it is enough just communicate by the cell phone and forget that the face to face talk is much important for the people. Therefore, even though, technology is high-tech toady we still need to remember and aware the problem that might occurred by the modern technology.
Resource: Art-Tech(2004)
http://www.art-tech.org/