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Channel 4's public art 'mobile blogging' website - called the Big Art Mob - is now live. The site at www.channel4.com/bigartmob is designed to build a web-based resource and community ahead of next year's Big Art Project television series and with a life well beyond the broadcast. Mobile blogging[/B]' involves sending photos, text and other media direct from your mobile phone to appear within seconds on a widely accessible website.]

The Big Art Mob invites people to help make the UK's first comprehensive map of public art by sending photos (and text, video or audio, if they so desire) to do with public art straight from their mobile phones. Using a combination of Google Maps, a geo-coding facility and 'tags' (i.e. labels/keywords - created by the senders and viewers alike), these photos and moblog 'posts' will collectively form an interactive map to celebrate and preserve the country's wealth of public art.

But what is 'public art'? It's up to the users to interpret and decide, which is half the fun of it. How far does it extend beyond the sculptures and statues that first come to mind? does graffiti count? does it have to be inanimate? The Big Art Mob is intended to encourage enjoyable discussion about the nature and definition of public art - from figurative sculpture through to architectural and digital to street art.

Adam Gee, Channel 4's Commissioning Editor, New Media, says: "There's no comprehensive map of the UK's public art, simply because there's so much of it. But now, with a combination of networked media and people power, for the first time it's an achievable public challenge. As well as documenting the richness and diversity of our public art, the Big Art Mob highlights the fun of moblogging and provides the base for a lively, visually-oriented, UK-centred arts community."

The Big Art Moblog is part of the Channel's Big Art Project which will trace the evolution of six public artworks from the commissioning and funding process through to the installation. This highly ambitious, ground-breaking television series is planned for broadcast in 2008.

The idea is to get people talking about public art so we could make you guys a group on Big Art Mob where your users could upload pictures of Public Art as you judge the best to win.

We want your reader to upload their pictures of public art and write what they think about it.

<center>For you chance to win:-

You need to upload your picture


The best picture will win this great prize.

</center> We are giving away 1x Ben the Illustrator Print. For your chance to win simply complete the following:
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I like the big green button sarah ~ you're really getting into them.