Testing grounds - The SIM project

Menger, Frank

Abstract

Exploring how the SIM card shapes a sense of security, identity and community, the project disrupts the automated nature of the smartphone to create unique, wearable artworks, stamped with QR codes. Exhibition of SIM card size glass plate photographs, mounted in jewellery pendants and designed by Sofie Boons, created during workshops with migrant communities, using the historic dry plate photography process as adapted for smart-phone photography by Frank Menger.

• Exhibition Performance Type: Exhibition
• Start Date: Nov 10, 2022
• End Date: Jan 31, 2023
• Deposit Date: Dec 15, 2022
• Keywords: SIM card, dry-plate photography, keepsake jewellery, migrant communities, communciation
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10254698
• Related Public URLs: https://kingsdh.net/2022/10/25/the-sim-project/