Radiator Spring Programme 2010
A series of events which aim to increase knowledge about the cultural aspects of future mobility and the new spaces created by electronic networks.
TRACING MOBILITY SYMPOSIUM
Symposium #1 of 3
15 May
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
Joining forces with Nottingham Contemporary as part of their forthcoming Uneven Geographies exhibition, 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.
Participants include; Frank Abbott (UK); Active Ingredient (Rachel Jacobs); Heath Bunting (UK); Simon Faithfull (UK/DE); James Kennard (UK); Plan b (Sophia New & Dan Belasco Rogers) (UK/DE); Esther Polak (NL); 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 (IR/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'. This event is free but booking is essential.
The Tracing Mobility Symposia will also take place in: June/July 2010 The Knot, Warsaw, Poland; and Summer 2011 House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
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TERRITORIAL PLAY
A Trampoline Platform event
14 May
Broadway Media Centre, Nottingham
Taking a curatorial lead from the wider themes of Radiator's Tracing Mobility programme, Trampoline will present the first in a new series of platform events, called Territorial Play. This event will launch the Tracing Mobility programme on 14 May, and seeks to illustrate and annotate the critical debate of the Tracing Mobility Symposia by presenting a day long event of performances, screenings, live music, pervasive & locative gaming and artistic interventions. Territorial Play will feature the work of emerging artists by submission alongside many of the international artists participating in the symposium.
This event is free. No booking necessary.
TRACING MOBILITY: DIGITAL BROADWAY
14 May – 11 June
Broadway Media Centre, Nottingham
Trampoline, the organisation behind Radiator, have partnered with Digital Broadway at Broadway Media Centre, to present a programme of related screenings and projects that will annotate the Tracing Mobility Symposium. Projects include: 'Visualising Amsterdam', a collaboration between Aaron Koblin's and the mobile research institute CurrentCity (University of Salzburg and Senseable City lab of the MIT Boston), which explores the future possibility and application of a 'real-time' city by mapping the city of Amsterdam using a by-
product of mobile phone SMS activity; and Jamie O'Shea's, 'Immaculate Telegraph', a project initiated during a residency at Eyebeam (NYC) where, without using modern tools or materials, a voltage producing telegraph was placed into the wilderness.
"The Immaculate Telegraph is the first step towards a historical internet and shows
such technology doesn't necessitate modern industry, only modern knowledge."
Jamie O'Shea
GOING SOLO: Rural Adventures in an Urban Network
12 - 15 March | 18 - 21 March | 8 - 11 April
Derbyshire
Dan Belasco Rogers (UK/DE), Simon Faithfull (UK/DE) & Esther Polak (NL)
To explore what it means to truly be by one's self, Radiator has commissioned 3 artists to go into the wilderness alone to explore and record their experiences as location data, sound samples, video clips, text or drawings. Details of each of their journeys will be uploaded to a project blog and can be followed at: trampoline.org.uk/tracingmobility
GOING SOLO will be developed throughout 2010 and exhibited in 2011, the completed works being presented during the Tracing Mobility Exhibition that will take place in 2011 in Berlin. Extracts and artists’ research can be seen at the Tracing Mobility Symposium #1 which takes place on 15 May at Nottingham Contemporary.
ARTIST-RUN WORKSHOP
Highfields School & Level Centre, Rowsley, Derbyshire
Heath Bunting (UK) & James Kennard (UK)
Bunting and Kennard will be co-ordinating a one week workshop for 15 young participants in rural Derbyshire's inspiring centre for creative projects, the Level Centre. The final performance/interactive presentation will later be screened at venues throughout the region.
A 'Natural England' poll found that children today are 90% less likely to be found playing in the countryside than a generation ago. Instead, they are spending more time indoors in front of the computer or television, giving a head start to future health problems such as obesity. Perhaps we need to stimulate a future generation's imagination to enjoy the real world as if it were a video game? The aim of this workshop is to emphasise the exhilaration of exploring the countryside while making it relevant to the worlds which young people frequently inhabit. Using technologies for mapping the outdoors, such as GPS, mobile phones and the internet, this workshop will build new on-line worlds by walking in the countryside.
ARTIST’S RESIDENCY AT MRL
Spring and Summer 2010, Nottingham
Daniel Belasco Rogers: Plan B (UK/DE)
Nottingham University’s Mixed Reality Lab (MRL) hosts this unique artist’s residency with Belasco Rogers from Plan B. Plan B is a collaboration between Daniel and the artist, Sophia New. Together, they create installations, durational performances, locative media projects and live work for theatre. The Mixed Reality Lab is an experimental research facility within Nottingham University concerned with Human Computer interaction (HCI). Artists’ collaborations with MRL have previously led to award winning international arts projects.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Tracing Mobility is a concept by Anette Schafer & Miles Chalcraft and curated in collaboration with Ela Kagel.
Territorial Play is a concept by Mat Trivett from Trampoline.
Trampoline has hosted and curated events in both Nottingham and Berlin since 1997.
Tracing Mobility is a Radiator Festival event supported by funds from the Legacy Trust UK, European Regional Development Fund, European Cultural Foundation, Adam Mickiewicz Institute*, the Mixed Reality Lab at the University of Nottingham and Capital Cultural Fund
Berlin. In partnership with Nottingham Contemporary, Broadway Cinema and The Level Centre.
*POLSKA! YEAR, developed by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, is a joint iniative of the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. With the cooperation of British partners, Polska! Year aims to bring the communities of Poland and Great Britain closer by establishing new connections between Polish and British artistic institutions, artists and cultural practitioners.
PARTNERS
Nottingham Contemporary brings international art to an iconic building in the centre of Nottingham. The themes of the exhibitions are extended and explored through a full programme of talks, discussion and events supported by Nottingham Trent University and The University of Nottingham. It is one of the largest and most ambitious contemporary art spaces in the UK. It opened on 14 November 2009, the Director is Alex Farquharson.
The Knot is a mobile production and events platform coordinated by Goethe-Institute Warsaw in cooperation with Polnisches Institut Berlin, E-cart.ro Association, Bucharest and Raumlabor Berlin
House of World Cultures: a place for international contemporary arts and a forum for current developments and discourse in Berlin.
Broadway Media Centre, Nottingham, UK: one of the East Midlands’ most successful independent arts cinema and media lab; with 4 screens and a capacity of over 600,
Trampoline Berlin: a sister organisation of Radiator Festival, based in Germany.
Mixed Reality Lab, Nottingham University, UK: experimental research lab looking at Human Computer interaction (HCI) - providing artist's residencies within the facilities and technical expertise
