This project is about our relationship with technology and how it has affected our ways of socialization. The result of the project is a photograph of a temporary public installation. The scene was photographed at the place of a former open-air cinema: Bašta bioskopa Beograd (Belgrade Cinema Garden). According to documentation from the Belgrade City Archives, the park in Bregalnička street number 5 was converted to a cinema in 1946, by building the projection cabin and screen-wall opposite to it. The cinema operated in summertime and stopped presumably after 1970, according to Serbian Cinematography Annuals. Since then it has been left as an abandoned building in a neglected public park. By the act of pinning 113 non-functional mobile phones on the former cinema wall I situate two different media for consumption of visual content into the same level. The main difference between these two is that cinema offers a shared experience, whereas mobile phones are used separately by each individual. During the execution of the work, I had a chance to meet local neighbors of different ages and talk about habits regarding mobile phone consumption and forms of socialization in relation to it.


