Cellular Collaboration is an interactive installation that invites visitors to collectively create a large-scale projected drawing using their mobile phones. Participants contribute to the evolving composition by sending text messages containing coordinates, causing new shapes and connecting lines to appear within the projected image.

As additional visitors contribute, the installation grows into a collaborative visual network shaped by the actions of the audience. Individual contributions become part of a larger composition, revealing unexpected patterns and relationships that emerge through collective participation.

Created in 2007, prior to the introduction of the first iPhone and the widespread adoption of smartphones, the project repurposed everyday mobile phone technology as a tool for creative expression and public interaction. Custom software interpreted incoming text messages and translated them into visual elements projected in real time, allowing visitors to influence the artwork directly through a technology normally associated with communication rather than artistic creation.

The work explores participation, connectivity, and the emergence of complex systems from simple individual actions, transforming a gallery audience into active collaborators in the creation of the artwork.