Zeenath Hasan

B. 1976 in India. Lives in Finland. Works wherever work takes her.

MS Communication, India. MA New Media, Finland.

First sound work: IMPROVe 2005.

The mobile phone can be a medium through which sounds are heard outside of their original context. However, the normative definition of the mobile phone as a medium for communication has restricted its potential as a medium for sounds that exist outside of the immediate tele-communication. In my work I explore the potential of the mobile phone as a medium of communication beyond its currently dominant role as a transmitter of sounds. The design space for exploration is the mobile phone as a digital networked medium that is appropriated by social networks to communicate across boundaries of time, space and context.

I am an independent media designer involved in the practice of design for development. I exercise the potential of mobile information and communication technologies to facilitate grassroots activities and networks by mediating between technology actors, interest groups and the working team.

Cooperation with MAHITI: India based free and open source software developers.

zeenath.hasan@gmail.com

Links:

http://www.mlab.uiah.fi/improve

http://www.mahiti.org

http://www.zeeniac.net