True Blue Love (TBL) is a mobile phone social networking experience, designed to explore the politics behind intimate phone-based relations. The project will run through the exhibition but will be at its best in the close quarters of the closing party on 31st August. Available to all Series 60 Symbian phones; each participant enters into the program the characteristics of their ideal sexual mate, chosen from a series of preset selections. While the program is running, every time another phone comes within range, a love metric is calculated which is a representation of how close the incoming person matches the participant's ideal mate. If the match is close, the phone will emit a raucous mating call that will be unique to that participant. The concept behind the triggered mating calls is to attempt to undermine the silent technology of messaging and email with vocal communication that expresses the user's desires through a public broadcast, a broadcast that harks back to more primitive exchanges. The ridiculous sounds should function as social ice-breakers, and the unwilling couple may want to discuss what it is that they have in common that triggered the noise.

After years of juggling parallel interests in technology and the arts, Pierre tired of the schizophrenia and finally discovered that it was socially acceptable, in fact highly desirable, to merge the two. This was formalized through the completion of a Masters in Art & Technology at Chalmers University, Sweden. His background in music, engineering, literature and performing arts has provided him with sufficient options to keep him perpetually occupied in a self-inspired quest to weave together several unrelated threads of activity. The result – art and confusion.

His work has been exhibited or performed in Australia, Iceland, Cananda, Japan and Sweden. Proske’s interests lie in people’s relationships with technology as well as biological inspired art and the intersection of art and technology. Other dabblings are in games and interactive narrativity, where he draws upon his experience in both web design and in the computer games industry. Currently alternating between work as an artist and a short stint at the Future Applications Lab in Gothenburg, Sweden. He can also be occasionally caught moonlighting as a member of an electro-pop act in the seedier clubs of dark downtown Melbourne.