Physical:Virtual: Freedom (2011)

The videos uploaded to this account are the works of British artist Ryan Hughes.

They are one part of Hughes' work PHYSICAL:VIRTUAL:FREEDOM made specifically for the NEWMEDIA DAET 2011 festival, the rest of the work consists of 1206 SMS text messages in both English and Filipino sent to the festival audiance members found using www.facebook.com.

As part of the festival this www.youtube.com accout is also being projected into physical space in Daet.

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Over the course of the NewMedia Daet Festival 2011 1206 SMS text messages were sent in both Filipino and English to festival audiance members found using the www.facebook.com service. Videos of these text messages were made and posted on to www.youtube.com where every response received was added as a comment to the video.

The messages sent read:

1) move 3ly in space sk8in cyclin n travellin should b encouraged 1) malaya sa ispeys iskeytboarding, pagbibiskleta at maglakbay

2) c architecture round u n use its details 2) makita arkitektura bilog at iyon mga detalye

3) chat 2 each otha 3) magsalita sa kada iba

4) sleep wer n wen u like 4) tulog saan at kailan kaye gusto

5) boycott bricks n mortar ther r otha ways 2 live 5) boykot brick at lusong marami pang ibang paraan upang mabuhay

6) rememba 2 be flexable n that space is temp

The work explored the manipulation of communication networks and how audiances respond to becoming subject to this manipulation.

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