"Z1SMS The World is Getting Smaller" print and monthly SMS|MMS subscription by Jon Winet, 2006-2007, mixed media print and monthly SMS|MMS subscription, print - 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches framed to 8 1/2 x 10 1/4.

Monthly SMS|MMS subscription with framed mixed media work with
commercial offset lithography print
8.5" x 10.25" [dimensions of frame]
2.25" x 3.25" [dimensions of print]

Subscribers receive a text message on their cell phone or mobile
device on the first of each month for one year. Subscribers with rich
content capability may also receive a photography or video.

A companion web site will archive the messages.

An earlier version of "Z1SMS" was created for the week-long "ZeroOne
San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge and the Thirteenth
International Symposium of Electronic Art," San Jose, California, USA,
August 2006."

Courtesy Gallery Paule Anglim
San Franciscso, California, USA

Technology development: Craig Dietrich, University of Iowa Intermedia
Studios and Virtual Writing University Experimental Wing.

Jon Winet is an artist, researcher and teacher. He directs the
Intermedia program in the School of Art & Art History at The
University of Iowa, and is an Associate Professor in International
Programs.

In August, launched "Zero One to the Globe -- The World to San Jose," a
SMS|MMS project for mobile devices as part of "ZeroOne San Jose: A
Global Festival of Art on the Edge & the Thirteenth International
Symposium of Electronic Art" (ISEA2006) in San Jose, California.

Earlier in the summer he completed work on "Goal 2006!," an
international media project focussing on the FIFA soccer World Cup in
the era of globalization.

For over twenty years he worked in the collaboration Margaret
Crane|Jon Winet producing projects revolving around politics, art,
language and image in the Information Age. Recent projects include
"2004-America & The Globe," a year-long multimedia project on the US
presidential elections and democratic practice in America; and
Monument," an online hypertext project based in Newcastle that
explores English northeastern identity in the contemporary landscape
of cultural regeneration and global economics.

He is currently part of a design team at Onomy Labs in the Silicon
Valley, developing "T2ST -- The Times Square of Science and
Technology," a permanent installation in the atrium of the Liberty
Science Center in Jersey City, New Jersey.

This fall he was appointed appointed director of the Expermental Wing
of The University of Iowa Virtual Writing University. He is presently
editing a 'post web' issue exploring new networks and delivery systems
for experimental writing for TIR Web, the online companion to the
literary journal The Iowa Review.