25 Nov 2011

Tracing Mobility: Exhibition, Symposium and Open Platform

Tracing Mobility sets out to examine how electronic networks and mobile media are transforming our conceptions of time, space and distance.

The exhibition presents the positions of 16 international artists who trace the shifting terrain of global and local mobility, virtual and material movement. They use varying approaches to pursue the numerous questions of our present's mobility: Where can we escape to when online and offline worlds converge? What does the movement of a body in a landscape indicate when every point of the earth is within reach through the aid of digital technology? How do mobile devices and media alter our mindset and change our perception of time and space?

In order to position themselves within this dynamic topography and to find possible points of exit, the exhibiting artists have developed installations, videos, performances and paintings, iPhone apps, maps and open-source collaborations.

Artists and exhibited works
Frank Abbott (UK), Aram Bartholl (DE), Neal Beggs (UK/FR), Heath Bunting (UK), Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller (CAN), Miles Chalcraft (UK/DE), Simon Faithfull (UK/DE), Yolande Harris  (UK/NL), Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser (DE), Landon Mackenzie (CAN), Open_Sailing (FR/JP), plan b (Sophia New & Dan Belasco Rogers) (UK/DE), Esther Polak & Ivar van Bekkum (NL), Gordan Savicic (AT/NL), Mark Selby (UK), Michelle Teran (CAN/DE).

Related events, including the Symposium, and the Tracing Mobility Open Platform will offer further explorations of these themes via lectures, talks and workshops.

Symposium Speakers
Heath Bunting (UK), Wolfgang Ernst (DE), Christian Hänggi (CH), Stefan Heidenreich (DE), Landon Mackenzie (CAN), Sadie Plant (UK), Hendrik Speck (DE), Hito Steyerl (DE), Michelle Teran (CAN/DE), Hubertus von Amelunxen (DE) (moderator) and Stephen Kovats (CAN/DE) (moderator).

Open Platform
Ximena Alarcón, Tarik Barri, Rebecca Beinart, Matthias Einhoff, Will Foster, Lars Hayer, Chicks on Speed, Kim Collmer, Cooperativa General Humana (�?lvaro Ramírez / Paula Crutchlow and Helen Varley Jamieson), Alex Eisenberg, Elaine W. Ho, Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga, Georg Klein, Thomas Klein, Steffen Mücke, Jurek Schie, Brian Hoffmann, Alba Mayol Curci, Thomas Maximilian Stuck, Elisa Asenbaum, Harald Hofer, Darija Medić, Richard Misek, Shintaro Miyazaki, Leila Nadir, Cary Peppermint, Helge Peters, Dale  Phurrough, Rimini Protokoll, Rob Ray, Jesse Scott, Mirae Rosner, Adam Thomas, Anselm Venezian Nehls, Oliver Walker, Paul Wiersbinski, TAHETER UNKST, Bjørn de Wildt and Christian Zöllner.

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Full Programme

Wed, November 23
7pm Exhibition Opening
8pm Tracing Mobility Music Systems
9pm Artist Talk with Simon Faithfull, Landon Mackenzie, Esther Polak & Ivar van Bekkum

Sat, November 26
11am – 5pm Symposium, Entrance: 20 Euro/15 Euro
2pm Participatory Performance „Performing StreetView“ by Esther Polak & Ivar van Bekkum (NL) (registration required)
3pm – 7pm Tracing Mobility Open Platform
3pm Lecture Performance by Michelle Teran
3.15pm Artist Talk by Landon Mackenzie
6pm – 7pm Open Platform: Open Hour

Sun, November 27
12pm – 5pm Workshop “Monument. Skin. Excavation”, by Martin Howse
2pm – 6pm Tracing Mobility Open Platform
5pm – 6pm Open Platform: Open Hour

Mon, December 12
7pm Finissage | Artist Talk with Aram Bartholl, Folke Köbberling & Martin Kaltwasser, plan b (Sophia New & Daniel Belasco Rogers)


Tracing Mobility is a project by Trampoline - Agency for Art & Media, in cooperation with Haus der Kulturen der Welt and Radiator Festival Nottingham, curated by Miles Chalcraft and Anette Schäfer. The project Tracing Mobility is funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, European Cultural Foundation, The British Council, Königreich der Niederlande and Botschaft von Kanada.

About Trampoline
Tracing Mobility is a project by Trampoline, agency for Art and Media, founded by artists Anette Schäfer and Miles Chalcraft in 1997. Trampoline is based in Nottingham and runs a second office in Berlin since 2000. The organisation supports and develops artists working at the critical edge of emerging technology and digital culture. Over the last 14 years, Trampoline gained international reputation with its diverse events and programmes, especially with its Radiator Festival: International Festival for Art and Media in Nottingham (2000, 2003, 2005, 2009) and the Radiator Symposium (2005, 2009).

Tracing Mobility Berlin is the final event of a Europe-wide project that encompassed residencies, workshops, events, exhibitions and a symposium. After a series of events in the UK, in Warsaw (PL) and at the Croatian coast, Tracing Mobility Berlin presents the results of this two year long process.