In 2012, Aromeiazero NGO created a festival around their goal, a Bike Arte Festival. This festival is hosted every year in a different low-income neighborhood and invites artists as volunteers to run the many activities and workshops they have that are all done on or about bikes. Instead of food trucks, they have food bikes and mobile bike libraries, and more. Some of the activities they have are teaching people how to ride bikes and hosting mechanical workshops about bikes. All of these activities are to show people how bikes can be used, as well as how they can be creative with bikes. One of the workshops they hold are Graffiti workshops to teach people how to decorate walls with spray paint. Instead of using spare parts to build bikes, the movement here is inverse. Once a bike no longer works, they take the bike parts and use them for creative activities, such as creating aesthetically pleasing artifacts.

Mobile networked art is an aesthetic expression that doesn’t always require the “finest tools” in order to be imbued with cultural meaning and community significance. This unique example promotes a local community, creating connections and networking by using mobile technology. The festival has volunteers who engage by providing workshops to low-income communities that not only teach them how to fix bikes, but also how to facilitate design projects in different media. It shows how mobile networked art is not only about an aesthetic expression, but is a political intervention and a playful way of engaging with the community, as well as subverting and exploring technologies and spaces.