CeMoRe collaborates with Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts on a Mobilities and Art research focus. Our researchers, visiting fellows and post-doctoral scholars do interdisciplinary practice-based research at the intersection of art and mobilities and engage in walking seminars, workshops, symposia and exhibitions.
We have five key approaches to this field:
Through socially engaged, participatory and digital art we aim to engage with how sensory mobilities, practical making, exploration and navigation contribute to shaping the field. The scope of our research is broad, encompassing everyday mobilities, socio-technical encounters with mobile technologies, virtual mobilities and game spaces, locative media, migration, health and wellbeing, and environmental change.
Through the Art & Mobilities network we seek to develop connections to other researchers and organisations in order to develop research into the histories of mobilities in art practice, theories of mobile art, mobile research methods, aesthetics of mobility, and the contribution that art can make to mobility and social change.
We also support art and mobilities practice through mobilities lab equipment loans for research and exhibitions. If you are interested in loaning any equipment, please contact: Jen Southern.
Previous and Ongoing Projects have included an Arts and Mobilities Network Symposium, the Mobile Utopia Exhibition, the Mobility Futures Exhibition, and Im|mobile Lives in Turbulent Times Exhibition (in collaboration with Mobility Futures Research Network) (any newer ones with additional information can be added here).
We also support Fellowships, Post-doctoral and PhD researchers (e.g. Kay Syng Tan, Owen Chapman, Tricia Flanagan, Sam Thulin, Nikki Pugh, Gudrun Filipska, M J Hunter Brueggemann).
The Mobility Futures Exhibition (2013) explored a future of tracking, connecting, observing and spatialising technologies. The works make visible flows of data and people within and across borders through the use of Twitter, surveillance camera footage, movement data,...