.Applets for Jaspanese cell phone -based entertainment have only been surpassed by those in countries like Finland, where wireless communication has reached ubiquitous levels. These five works from Japan, seen as part of PS1 NY's Buzz Club exhibition, explore possibilities for phone-based creativity. Although most of them are not actual phone applications, they explore playful possibilities for future phone-based art.

Artists/Works
Buzz Club Phone - PS1's own improbable phone (for PC and Mac) that incorporates animations, music composition, and interpersonal interaction.

Takuya Sato - This installation is a phone environment in which the user plays with and manipulates cute digital characters and texts in three dimensions.

Kazuo Soma - This multi-user interactive installation is done in the spirit of Japanese mutinodal interactive applications, and allows the user to create dynamic online animations with other logged in users.

Ages 5 & Up - A simple animation that is also available for Japanese i-mode phones.

Soulmates Graphica - Mobile Sampling Phone. This work is a hypothetical applet in which the phone is transformed into a real-time audiovisual sampler/DJ station.