Making Mobilities
On June 5th researchers and artists who focus on mobilities met at Lancaster University to present their work. The day began with presentations given by specialists that use wearable technology in their work. The workshop was for people of varying abilities and...
Cumbrian Coin Tree – Mobilities Reading Group
https://vimeo.com/132921646 A little slideshow with sound to accompany the reading for the July 15, 2015 Mobilities Reading Group meeting, Ceri Houlbrook's "The Mutability of Meaning: Contextualizing the Cumbrian Coin-Tree".
Uppies and Downies Video
https://vimeo.com/127933037
Smell Walk
https://vimeo.com/127942618
Sensory Interviews – Shaking Hands
https://vimeo.com/127997966
What Cannot Be Captured
https://vimeo.com/127935254
Moment Disappeared
https://vimeo.com/127927627
Mobile Ethnography with Mobile Devices
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1Y7RkV1FI8&feature=youtu.be
Hands on Research
https://youtu.be/we9ixqTmTM8
Memento Mori
https://vimeo.com/120513626
Where the Sky Widens
Enthusiastic, curious people were invited to participate in a group workshop led by Nikki Pugh as part of a research project that investigates the use of sculptural, location-aware objects as a tool for thinking and talking about distant places. Read Nikki's MA...
Mobility Point, or, Mobility for a Study of Vagrancy
‘Mobility Point’ is a way for me to see histories of vagrancy. I am looking at what I am calling the registers of mobility in the colonial past by focusing on the figure of the vagrant.
Being Plural Singular
http://youtu.be/InbkSd7YjJk Monika Büscher's reflections on Jean-Luc Nancy's Being Singular Plural (the Mobilities Reading Group text for April 23, 2015).
Music in Morecambe
I took advantage of the amazing weather last Friday and spent the afternoon by the sea using one of the Mobslab iPads to work on an in situ composition.
Reading Group
A new mobilities research reading group begins on Thursday 19th February at 4.30 in the mobilities lab. Our first reading is Deadly Algorithms by Susan Schuppli. Supplementary links include the audio recording of Shane Riza's paper from the Security by Remote Control...
Uppies and Downies
A small team from the mobilities.lab experiment (Jen Southern) and Edinburgh University (Chris Speed, Anais Moisy & Chris Barker) tracked, filmed and photographed the Uppies and Downies mass football game in Workington on Tuesday 7th April.
Drone in backpack on the train
The mobslab experiment drone on its way to an artists residency in Lydney with Rebecca Birch from LICA.
Mobile historian – my visit to CeMoRe in Spring, 2015
I have recently returned from a wonderful month in Lancaster and surrounds. I embraced my mobility, visiting the Lakes District, Glasgow, London, Manchester, Keele University near Crewe, and of course, the local worlds of Lancaster.