About

Tracing Mobility is a pan-European arts programme produced by Radiator launching in Nottingham mid May 2010 and travelling to Warsaw (June/July 2010) and Berlin (2011).  Radiator presents a series of residencies, workshops, events and symposia, examining the shifting terrain of global mobility and how developments in networked infrastructure are transforming our conceptions of time, space and distance.

Mobility has become one of the most important keywords in dominant discourses on globalisation, techno-economic change and the Information Society. The idea of nomadic, ‘mobile’ persons supported by spatial mobilisation of capital, goods and knowledge pervades politics, economics, technology, media, commerce and culture.

The discourse surrounding mobility, characterized by the dream of always on accessibility, the lure of the de-territorialistion of space and the breakdown of public, economic or geographic boundaries offered by the Internet; associations concerning mobility shifts between cultural pessimism and cyber utopianism. Mobility has been facilitated by the ‘boom in wireless technology’*, a development generally perceived as progress in an economic and technological sense. What is often neglected is the progress offered by the cultural potential of the new spaces opened up by these technologies.
* cf. Armin Medosch, „ Waves – The Art of the Electromagnetic Society (2008), p. 14ff

Tracing Mobility sets out to look at this aspect, presenting recent artistic practices in innovative formats while supporting the interdisciplinary EU-wide dialogue and has been produced in collaboration and partnership with a broad range of organisations, venues, advisors and informers.

Credits

Tracing Mobility is a Trampoline – Agency for Art and Media and Radiator Festival Project
Artistic directors & curators: Miles Chalcraft & Anette Schäfer
Co-curator symposium: Jennifer Hope Davy
Curator Open Platform: Lorena Monsalve
Curator music programme: Jeff McGrory
Production & coordination: Cara Bell-Jones
Assistant production & Open Platform: Franziska Oehme
Editor web & social media: Karen Khurana
Assistant communication & web: Cassandra Bron
Print media production: Noemi Heidel
Graphic design: Vladimir Llovet Casademont
Catalog texts: Jennifer Hope Davy
Exhibition design: Folke Köbberling & Martin Kaltwasser
Assistant exhibition design: Paul Brownlee
Assistant coordinator: Grace Denton

Haus der Kulturen der Welt:
Intendant: Bernd M. Scherer
Coordinator: Alexandra Engel
Press: Anne Maier
Technical Manager: Gernot Ernst & Team