Tracing Mobility

Part of the Radiator European programme Tracing Mobility, this was the first  symposium, held at Nottingham Contemporary. Coinciding with Uneven Geographies exhibition at the NC, with some great work including several pieces form the 70s by Oyvind Fahlstrom.
Yesterday was an afternoon and evening of Territorial Play which I didn't get to - but sounded great and included work by some of today's presenters.

"Tracing Mobility, the first of Radiator’s three international symposia, examines the emergence of a new art space, a space born out of the technology used to control and divide society. Taking place at Nottingham Contemporary on Saturday 15 May to coincide with the Uneven Geographies exhibition.

Participants include; Frank Abbott (UK); Active Ingredient (Rachel Jacobs); Steve Benford (UK); Heath Bunting (UK); Simon Faithfull(UK/DE); James Kennard (UK); plan b (Sophia New & Dan Belasco Rogers) (UK/DE); Robin Bhattacharya (UK/CH); Kasia Krakowiak (PL);Krzysztof Nawratek (PL/UK); Kate Rich (UK); Michelle Teran (CA/DE);Open_Sailing (Ollie Palmer) (UK); Gordan Savicic (AT/NL); Trebor Scholz (US); Basak Senova (TR); Société Réaliste (HU/FR); Joanna Warsza (PL); Mushon Zer-Aviv (IL/US)

Presentations by artists and speakers from diverse fields as geography, urban theory and computer science will explore what constitutes being nomadic these days and how developments in networked and open source infrastructure are transforming our expectations of ‘Place’."

Lots of inspiration and information and connections to follow up - with people, work and references... including:

Book: Mobilities by John Urry (Lancaster Uni, Social Sciences 2007)

App: Comob and Comob net (iphone and Nokia N96) by Jen Southern and Chris Speed and Collaborative drawing as a mode of reflection for participants. Jen will be Walking to Work with comob in July on the way to the Experimental Society...

Book: The Temporary Autonomous Zone by Hakim Bey (Pirate utopias and the closure of the map)


http://www.open_sailing.net/


Schizogeography in Vienna - Gunther Gross with paint and Gordan Savicic with Constraint City


Rachel from Active Ingredient showed realtime data visualisations from trees participating in the Dark Forest 
Looking at their site, found some mobile participatory filmmaking in Leicester.