Technology plays a big part in this year’s E17 Art Trail – from Twitter-inspired photography to secret works that can be unlocked with a Smartphone.

Tweet your most cherished possession at the Art Trail...

Twitter has been buzzing with Trail visitors tweeting their discoveries with the #awesomestow, #bestow and #e17arttrail hashtags. Walthamstow’s thriving online community is also the subject of some of the artworks on show: like at the #ProjectCherished exhibition at Venue 32, 215 Coppermill Lane.

Photographer Fabien Ho has taken images of a number of Walthamstow-based Twitter-users with their most cherished items.

“Twitter tows a contradictory line between being invisible yet very public at the same time,“ says Fabien, “and it is this paradox which interests me.

“It turns out the Twitter community in Walthamstow are one of the most welcoming and inclusive bunch of people, so I instinctively knew I had found the ’community’ I wanted to photograph.

“The collection of images I’ve created documents locals with their most cherished belonging. To me, it’s immaterial really what the object is, because it’s the story behind it that matters.“

Visitors can tweet their own most cherished object and the story behind it using the #ProjectCherished tag.

Last Saturday, a live Twitter performance, at Attlee Terrace, saw residents tweeting as they moved around the vicinity.

If you’re in the area you can view 140 character poems, the result of earlier online workshops by thedrawingshed.org, which are up on signposts around the estate.

There's an app for that...

If you’ve got a smartphone then there’s a whole virtual layer of the Art Trail waiting to be discovered. The trail has its own mobile app with which users can search listings, share their favourite exhibitions and navigate their way around. You can download the app17 and Red Leader designed app from the app store (for iPhone) or at app17.co.uk (for Android).

With mobile in hand, visitors to Venue 36, 121 Billet Road, can scan the QR code Oliver Duke-Williams has created from LEGO to recieve an animation made by his daughters Daisy, 11, and Scarlett, six, of the Olympic Torch Relay – made completely from LEGO bricks.

While we’re on the subject, Venue 99, 65 Farnan Avenue, is full of LEGO creations – with the opportunity to build your own too.

And at Venue 20, 85 Northcote Road, Smartphone users can scan the QR codes that accompany the portraits by illustrator Matt Richards to unlock interviews with the musicians he’s depicted.

Meanwhile over at Venue 58, Ye Olde Rose & Crown, Hoe Street, Matt Russell has used his phone’s camera to shoot pedestrians from the top deck of a moving bus with some ghostly results titled Motion blur (pictured above).

For full listings visit: www.e17arttrail.co.uk