Tracing Mobility: Symposium

There will be live blogging from the symposium. Which can be followed here!

Following the first Tracing Mobility Symposium in Nottingham (spring 2010), the Berlin edition will continue the debates around the changes in our concept of time, space and distance with international representatives from fields such as art and media theory, social science, computer science, artistic practice and curating.

How does our relationship change to the natural world, to remote places, when connectivity is assured even if only by means of a passive satellite link? How does our tolerance of the real world adjust when so much of our shared experience, on a day to day basis, takes place in a purpose-designed container that allows us to edit out the problematic bits. How are people’s rights affected when they are not conscious producers of information but unwilling generators of data, as digital refugees?

In this new world built of mass-less architecture have we not become trapped by the Net just when we thought we were escaping the ground?

The Tracing Mobility Symposium 2011 promises to tease this question till it tears while pulling at the threads of ownership, imperialism and empiricism.

Participants:
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)

Moderators:
Hubertus von Amelunxen (DE)
Stephen Kovats (CAN/DE)

Tickets: 20€/15€
The Symposium is held in English language.
For registration please contact: tickets [at] hkw.de

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Symposium Speakers… →

Curated by Miles Chalcraft & Anette Schäfer
Co-curated by Jennifer Davy

Photo: Karen Fraser