2004

Tokyo and Seoul.

Over the past 15 years Hjorth has combined ethnography and art to reflect upon ways in which mobile media plays out in everyday lives. Sometimes this process involved using the camera like a way finder tool, other times it resulted in playful mobile content. Hjorth’s use of mobile media is not just as the researcher’s tool but also as a field of research that shapes modes of inquiry in particular ways. From 2000 when Hjorth was living in Tokyo and then Seoul, she used mobile media as both a photographic tool and medium for creative research practice. Through a series of photographic vignettes Hjorth explored the everyday practices in and around mobile media.