On April 4, 2009, SMart Festival was showcasing special guest the Minneapolis Art on Wheels (MAW). MAW is known world-wide as an exceptional community orientated, public arts initiative which produces mobile media. This group of artists from Minneapolis prides itself on creating art to facilitate community engagement, respect diversity of opinion, voice, and people. MAW is able to produce moving images up to several hundred feet, outdoors, in public spaces. Their emphasis on mobile devices (i.e., cellular phones) and gestural interaction with media (e.g., laser tag, real-time video tracking and gesture recognition) allows a large audience interaction with mobile media. The project engages use of technology and materializes this engagement in the form of community outreach and temporary public art.
