Tracing Mobility. Cartography and Migration in Networked Space

29/11/2010. Exhibition, Symposium and Open Platform.[Berlin] Germany. 24.11.2011 - 12.12.2011
metalocus, INÉS LALUETA

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

Janet Cardiff / George Bures Miller (CAN). Road Trip, 2004 The artist duo, Janet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller, discovered a carousel of slides that had belonged to Bures Miller’s grandfather, who died before the artist was born. The slides documented his grandfather’s cross-country trip from Calgary to New York, via Vancouver to see his son. The eventual purpose of the road trip was to meet with a doctor in New York in regards to the cancer that Bures Miller’s grandfather was dying from.

Janet Cardiff / George Bures Miller (CAN). Road Trip, 2004 The artist duo, Janet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller, discovered a carousel of slides that had belonged to Bures Miller’s grandfather, who died before the artist was born. The slides documented his grandfather’s cross-country trip from Calgary to New York, via Vancouver to see his son. The eventual purpose of the road trip was to meet with a doctor in New York in regards to the cancer that Bures Miller’s grandfather was dying from.

Open_Sailing The explosion on British Petroleum’s oil platform, “Deepwater Horizon” in the Gulf of Mexico, on 20 April 2010, caused the most devastating environmental event in the history of the United States. At the time, Cesar Harada, a MIT project leader, left Boston and moved to New [...]

Aram Bartholl (DE). Conceptually, Dust is a 1:1 scale replica of one of the most played computer game maps in the world found in Counter Strike, a tactical first person shooter online game. The idea is to materialise the 3D model of the Counter Strike map, ‘de_dust’, as a permanent structure made from concrete. This architectural map would become accessible as a large-scale public sculpture (dimensions ca. 115 x 110 x 15 meter).  

Gordan Savicic (AT/NL) The urban environment, in particular, of the 21st Century is overlaid with an invisible architecture; it is an architectonic landscape composed of electromagnetic waves and as such one does not have any real sense of it, in the sense of a direct physical relation to an architecture while moving

Simon Faithfull (UK/DE). Going Nowhere, 1995 Going Nowhere 2, 2011. Going Nowhere has developed into a series, the first piece completed sixteen years ago, Going Nowhere (1995), and the second completed just this year, Going Nowhere 2 (2011). What becomes ironic, as well as provocative, in both pieces is the question: where is “nowhere”, and perhaps more pointedly, how do I get there?

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?

Yolande Harris (UK/NL). Taking Soundings, 2008.

By means of installations, videos, performances and paintings, but also in the guise of iPhone Apps, maps and open-source collaborations, we see artists developing strategies in order to position themselves within this dynamic topography and to find possible points of exit.

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

Esther Polak & Ivar van Bekkum (NL) <Abstractview>, 2009

Exhibiting Artists: Frank Abbott (UK), Aram Bartholl (DE), Neal Beggs (UK/FR), Heath Bunting (UK), Janet Cardiff / George Bures Miller (CAN), Miles Chalcraft (UK/DE, Simon Faithfull (UK/DE), Yolande Harris (UK/NL), Folke Köbberling & 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)

Symposium Speaker: Heath Bunting (UK), Wolfgang Ernst (DE), Tim Etchells (UK, tbc), Stefan Heidenreich (DE), Landon Mackenzie (CAN), Sadie Plant (UK), Hendrik Speck (DE), Hito Steyerl (DE), Michelle Teran (CAN/DE), Eyal Weizman (UK, tbc), Irit Rogoff (UK, tbc), Hubertus von Amelunxen (DE) (moderator), Stephen Kovats (CAN/DE) (moderator)

For more information visit: www.tracingmobility.org

Mark Selby (UK). Camera Explora, 2007.

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).

Miles Chalcraft (UK/GER). At End of Road, 2008.

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.

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.

Date and Time: 24 Nov 2011 to 12 Dec 2011 11:00 - 19:00 h.
Venue: Haus der Kulturen der Welt : John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10. Berlin. Germany.