Abstracts & Biographies
Saskia Sassen
Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Member, The Committee on Global Thought, at Columbia University. Her new book is Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages ( Princeton University Press 2006) and A Sociology of Globalization (Norton 2007). She wrote a lead essay in the 2006 Venice Biennale of Architecture Catalogue and has now completed for UNESCO a five-year project on sustainable human settlement based on a network of researchers and activists in over 30 countries; it is published as one of the volumes of the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) (Oxford, UK: EOLSS Publishers) http://www.eolss.net . Her books are translated into nineteen languages. She has written for The Guardian, The New York Times, OpenDemocracy.net, Le Monde Diplomatique, the International Herald Tribune, Newsweek International, the Financial Times, among others.
In her presentation she will show extracts from "Faith in Infrastructure", by the http://theerrorists.com/
Saul Albert
Saul Albert is an artist from London whose work emerged from the intersection of 'net art, DIY culture and the Free Software movement in the 90's and continues to develop speculative forms of participatory culture, business, technology and governance.
In 2006 he and Mikey Weinkove co-founded The People Speak: a participatory public art, media and technology collective creating 'tools for the world to take over itself'. From 'Talkaoke': the flying
saucer of chat (http://talkaoke.com) to 'Who Wants to Be' (http://whowantstobe.co.uk), the direct-democracy game show, each project exploring public space through open public conversation.
Richard Barbrook
Dr. Richard Barbrook is the author of Pluto Press’s Spring 2007 release Imaginary Futures and has also written a number of highly influential essays on the clash between commerce and cooperation within the Internet, including ‘The Hi-Tech Gift Economy’, ‘Cyber-communism’, ‘The Regulation of Liberty’ and, with Andy Cameron, ‘The Californian Ideology’, published in 1995 it was a controversial critique of the neo-liberal politics of Wired magazine. He has recently published a book on the social groups shaping the information society, The Class of the New (2006). During the early 1980s, he was involved in pirate and community radio broadcasting and helped establish Spectrum Radio, a multi-lingual station in London, and published extensively on radio issues. Between 1995 and 2005, he coordinated the pioneering Hypermedia Research Centre at the University of Westminster and was course leader of its MA in Hypermedia Studies, the first of its kind on offer in Britain. Educated at Cambridge, Essex and Kent Universities, Barbrook is currently a Senior Lecturer of Politics at the University of Westminster.
Duncan Campbell
Scottish born Duncan Campbell has for the past 25 years been an investigative journalist, author, consultant and television producer specialising in technology, privacy, civil liberties and secrecy issues. As well as founding his own production company, Campbell has also been the Chairman of the British political weekly the New Statesman.
IPTV Ltd, went on to make investigative documentaries such as “Undercover Britain” for Britain’s Channel 4 television and has contributed documentary material and inserts for Channel 4 News and Newsnight.
Since 2002 he has frequently served as a scientific expert witness in UK criminal and civil court cases involving telecommunications, computers, defence issues and electronic surveillance. He also participated in a further investigation of private military companies and global mercenary activities from which reports were published and known internationally as “The Business of War”.
Miles Chalcraft is an artist, curator and festival organiser, being one of the founder members of the new media arts organisation Trampoline, currently in its tenth year.
Through Trampoline, Miles runs the artists’ platform event bearing the organisations’ name both in Nottingham and Berlin and is also a director of the East Midlands’ new technology art festival and symposium, Radiator.
Miles also works as a video artist with renowned performance group, Gob Squad and has exhibited his own work as filmmaker and rocket artist throughout Germany and the UK.
David Crouch
Professor Emeritus Cultural Geography University of Derby UK, Visiting Professor Universities of Karlstad and Kalmar, Sweden; processes of constituting space, writing includes critical conceptual work on everyday life, landscape, nature, art practice, democracy and space; author of many academic papers, editor of leisure/tourism geographies Routledge 1999; Visual Culture and Tourism Berg 2003, The Media and the Tourist Imagination: convergent cultures Routledge 2005 and author, The Allotment: its landscape and culture, Faber 5th ed 2007 Five Leaves and also The Art of Allotments; currently writing Flirting [with] space: journeys and creativity, Ashgate 2010. exhibiting artist, television contributor and producer.
Neil Cummings
Neil Cummings is an artist, professor of Theory and Practice at Chelsea College of Art&Design, and Trustee of Nottingham Contemporary.
Cummings is interested in how digital archives and data banks are becoming part of the new architecture of our cities, and the conflicts that surround the property rights in public resources.
For the Radiator Symposium, Neil Cummings will present “The Social Cinema”, a project that turned un-built spaces into auditoria and spectacularly intervened in neglected places around landmark buildings. The film programme of “The Social Cinema” traced an evolution in the moving-image representation of everyday life. From the observer and observed of classic documentaries, to contemporary participation in those representations through mobile technologies.
Selected recent projects
2008 Lapdogs, Lapdogs of the Bourgeiose Townhouse Gallery Cairo, Egypt
Post-Production, Manifesta7 Bolzano, Italy
Museum Futures: Distributed Moderna Museet, Stockholm Sweden
2007 Parade the Contour Film Biennial, Mechelen Belgium,
2006 Social Cinema various public spaces Architectural Biennale, London
Screen Tests British Art Show Six.
2005 – 06 Enthusiasm, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Kunst Werke, Berlin; Tapies Foundation, Barcelona
2004 The Commons, International section, Liverpool Biennial.
2002 Free Trade, Manchester Art Gallery
2001 Capital, Tate Modern, London
http://www.chanceprojects.com
Glenn Davidson is Artist / Co-Director of Artstation the Cardiff based a multi-disciplinary art and technology partnership run with Anne Hayes. He studied Art and Cybernetics. Artstation are known for their international architectural installations, film, interactive media, architectural design, social interventions, and publishing. Glenn is a social entrepreneur and fellow of the Royal Society for Arts (FRSA), a consultant to business and public sector organisations. He has lectured and presented at conferences on art, media and sustainability. His work quoted as “a question of questions” tickles the roots of climate change, through this latest Radiator commission asking “are your electrical appliances controlling you?”, “is your default ON or OFF”.
Régine Debatty (BE) writes about the intersection between art, design and technology on we-make-money-not-art.com as well as on various design and art magazines. She curates art shows and lectures internationally about the way artists, hackers and interaction designers (mis)use technology.
Charlie Gere
Charlie Gere is Head of Department and Reader in New Media Research in the Institute for Cultural Research as well as Chair of Computers in History of Art (CHArt) at Lancaster University. He is also the author of Digital Culture (Reaktion Books, 2002), and Art, Time and Technology (Berg, 2006). In 2007 Gere co-curated FEEDBACK, a major exhibition of responsive art in Gijon, Spain.
As part of the Radiator Festival&Symposium, “A conversation with Charlie Gere”, will happen at 7pm on Thursday 15 January at QUAD Box, Derby
Peter Goodwin - Accelerate Nottingham
Peter Goodwin is currently seconded from the Greater Nottingham Partnership (GNP) as Executive Director of Accelerate Nottingham, the strategic ICT partnership for Greater Nottingham. Goodwin has also led Nottingham’s Digital Challenge bid culminating in Nottingham becoming part of the “Digital Challenge Network” looking at the Next Generation Broadband and Wireless provision in Nottingham city.
Peter Goodwin qualified as an Environmental Health Officer in 1975 and gained the Institute of Housing’s Professional Qualification in 1983. He began his career with Tameside MBC in Greater Manchester, where he specialised in housing area renewal programmes, before moving to Nottingham City Council in 1987 to head up the Renewal Section.
In 1998 he was seconded to the Greater Nottingham Partnership, a regeneration partnership funded and supported by all the main stakeholders in the Greater Nottingham conurbation and also the sub-regional partnership for the East Midlands Development Agency. He has led or facilitated a number of regeneration programmes covering a range of subjects such as health, crime, transport and community empowerment including New Commitment to Regeneration and New Deal for Communities. He was a member of the LGA working group looking at the early guidance for the establishment of LSPs.
He is currently seconded from the GNP as Executive Director of Accelerate Nottingham, the strategic ICT partnership for Greater Nottingham. While in this role he led Nottingham’s Digital Challenge bid which culminated in Nottingham earning a place among the ten national finalists and becoming part of the Digital Challenge Network.
He has facilitated the delivery of a number of ICT projects tackling social and digital exclusion and has been involved in a number of WiFi projects aimed at providing municipal wireless in open public areas.
Usman Haque
Usman Haque, director Haque Design + Research, www.haque.co.uk has created responsive environments, interactive installations, digital interface devices and mass-participation performances. His skills include the design of both physical spaces and the software and systems that bring them to life. He has been an invited researcher at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Italy, artist-in-residence at the International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences, Japan and has also worked in USA, UK and Malaysia. As well as directing the work of Haque Design + Research he was until 2005 a teacher in the Interactive Architecture Workshop at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London. Usman is a recipient of the 2008 Design of the Year Award (interactive) from the Design Museum, UK, a Wellcome Trust Sciart Award, a grant from the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology, the Swiss Creation Prize, Belluard Bollwerk International, the Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence prize and the Asia Digital Art Award Grand Prize. Haque Design + Research specialises in the design and research of interactive architecture systems. Architecture is no longer considered something static and immutable; instead it is seen as dynamic, responsive and conversant.
JODI
JODI explores the relations between the world we build through the Internet and the one based on our past mental and physical maps. Services such as GoogleMaps™ have changed our worldview radically by making the Globe accessible as a commercial multi-user surface.
As part of Radiator’s Digital Broadway Programme, Radiator will present “Geo Goo” on Broadway’s Glass Screen, where JODI uses a process of coding/decoding, and deciphers cryptic data in a chaotic surface to uncover hidden messages in geometric shapes.
JODI will also be presenting the Broadway Live Lecture in association with Nottingham Trent University on Friday 16 January at 11:00.
www.jodi.org
Dr. Susanne Jaschko (*1967) is an Amsterdam based curator and researcher in contemporary visual art and digital culture.
As off March 2008 she is head of presentation and the artist in residence programme at the Netherlands Media Art Institute. Besides she continues independent curating.
From 2000-2004 she was deputy director and curator of transmediale – international media art festival berlin. From 1997 – 1999 she worked as a programme assistant, later as curator at the transmediale.
In 2004 she became an independent curator.
Past curatorial projects include a travelling show entitled “Open House. - Architecture and Technology for Intelligent Living” that suggest future designs of homes in an era of extensive application of technology, sustainable ecology, urbanism and an over aged society. This show is produced by the Vitra Design Museum, Germany, and Art Center, College of Design, Pasadena, USA.
In addition, she currently curated the SCAPE Biennial 2006 dedicated to art in public space, in Christchurch, New Zealand and an international series of exhibitions entitled “urban interface” which happened in Oslo and Berlin in 2007.
In 2005 and 2006 she taught at the Academy of Applied arts in Potsdam in the department of European Media Science. In 2005 a grant for researcher in residence at the Daniel Langlois Foundation in Montréal enabled a research about “The temporal and spatial design of early film and video-based installation art, its perception and effect on the visitors’ action”.
In 2004, she twice visited the Statens Kunstakadmie in Oslo, Norway, as a guest teacher. In 2003 she was a guest teacher at the Leipzig University, Germany, where she taught in the department of media science and communication.
In 1999 she co-ordinated the conference "monomedia:value" on new values in media design at the University of the Arts, Berlin in 1999/2000.
She wrote her doctorate thesis about “Self-portraiture and self-understanding in the painting of the GDR from 1945 to the 80ies” at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Hochschule Aachen, Germany.
During her studies she casually wrote for newspapers and magazines about art and culture. Moreover she assisted in two Berlin galleries, the “Projektraum Berlin” and “Dogenhaus Galerie Berlin”, where she initiated and organised contemporary art shows. In 1995 she curated and organised the show “Entgrenzungen” presenting young artists from East Germany, for the Ludwig Forum, Aachen.
As a jury member she has participated in a number of national and international competitions in media art visual arts and digital culture. Moreover she lectures internationally and gives presentations on media art and digital culture.
Folke Köbberling&Martin Kaltwasser have exhibited in Germany and increasingly internationally. Their first Uk project in summer 2008 was a residency at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, where they built “Amphis”. In 2009 they will be artists in residence at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw/Poland, at Villa Serpentara in Olevano,/Italy as well as the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas, USA.
The artists / architects have been dealing with the conditions of urban living in their projects since 2002, and they call upon us to go back to the idea of the city as a resource. By using materials that they have found, they offer a critique of the wastefulness inherent in capitalism.
www.koebberlingkaltwasser.de
Rob van Kranenburg (1964) is Head of Public Domain at Waag Society. He is an innovation and media theorist involved with negotiability strategies of new technologies and artistic practice, predominantly ubicomp and rfid (radio frequency identification), the relationship between the formal and informalin cultural and economic policy, and the requirements for a sustainable cultural economy.
He went to work with Prof Ronald Soetaert in Ghent, in the Educational Department, developing online learning modules, methods and concepts drawing on the idea of multiliteracies. In 2000 he went to Amsterdam as programmer on media education at the centre for culture and politics de Balie and as teacher-coordinator of the new media program in the Film and Television Studies Department at the University of Amsterdam. Feeling it was to young a field to predominantly historize it, he moved to Doors of Perception and co-programmed with John Thackara Doors 7, Flow, the design challenge of pervasive computing. In 2003 he mentored a postgraduate course in performance, theatre and the arts at APT, Arts Performance Theatricality. For the past three years he has been working part time at Virtual Platform, Dutch policy and network organization for e-culture, as interim and co-director and programme manager. He taught media theory at Post St Joost (MA Autonomous Art), HKU EMMA (MA Interaction Design) and Medialab Amsterdam (teamcoach). As a freelancer Rob has worked for and with Mediamatic, Waag Society for Old and New Media, TEKS Trondheim, JISC, CTI Patras, Atlantis SA, Open University Netherlands, City of Breda, Institute of Network Cultures, Hobeon, V2,&Technical University Eindhoven, Industrial Design. He is a cofounder of Bricolabs.
Joost van Loon
Joost Van Loon is the Professor of Media Analysis at the Institute for Cultural Analysis, The Nottingham Trent University. Van Loon is also founding co-editor of the journal Space and Culture, an international refereed academic journal of research into everyday social spaces.
Central themes in Van Loon’s research are media-technology, risk and the knowledge-based economy. Theoretically, his work aims to develop connections between Media Ecology Theory, Actor Network Theory and Phenomenology.
N55 is a platform for people who want to work together to share economy and means of production. Current artists responsible for N55:
Ion Sørvin Co-founder of N55 in 1994
Education: The Royal Danish Academy of Art, Copenhagen 1991- 1998. Member of Kunstnersamfundet
Øivind Alexander Slaatto
Education: Danish school of design (Danmarks Designskole), 2002- 2007. Royal Danish Academy of Music, 1998- 2002
For the Radiator festival, N55 are working as the N55 INTELLIGENCE AGENCY [NIA]. The N55 [NIA] is dedicated to gathering information about concentrations of power. The purpose of NIA is to uncover and make visible the plans, strategies and tactics of such organizations.
The focus of the N55 [NIA] is on the effects of concentrations of power that are less visible than major power structures yet have their influences felt within everyday life.
Krzysztof Nawratek
Krzysztof Nawratek is an architect, urban designer, urban planner and social geographer. He is also Lecturer at the School of Architecture and Design, Faculty of Art, University of Plymouth.
Nawratek’s research can be found in the books "Political Ideologies in Space; Demystifications Exercises" and "City as a political idea", which focus on the social and political structures of architecture, urbanism and the city. Krzysztof Nawratek is currently working on a project focused on the city as a machine of oppression.
Ian Nesbitt
Since becoming an artist, Ian has variously co-founded Stand Assembly – www.standassembly.org – in 2004, was instrumental in bringing about the existence of Moot – www.mootgallery.org – in 2005, has had a parallel career in homeless mental health, and worked immersively on video, social documentary, community engagement and research projects all over Sneinton and beyond.
In 2007, Ian founded Annexinema with Emily Wilczek – www.annexinema.org – an organisation working outside of the cinema or gallery environment to put on visionary and cutting edge artists’ work in all areas of sound and moving image and from all corners of the globe.
Ian’s work has been shown internationally including at Liverpool Biennial 2006 and Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art.
Saskia Sassen
Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Member, The Committee on Global Thought, at Columbia University. Her new book is Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages ( Princeton University Press 2006) and A Sociology of Globalization (Norton 2007). She wrote a lead essay in the 2006 Venice Biennale of Architecture Catalogue and has now completed for UNESCO a five-year project on sustainable human settlement based on a network of researchers and activists in over 30 countries; it is published as one of the volumes of the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) (Oxford, UK: EOLSS Publishers) http://www.eolss.net . Her books are translated into nineteen languages. She has written for The Guardian, The New York Times, OpenDemocracy.net, Le Monde Diplomatique, the International Herald Tribune, Newsweek International, the Financial Times, among others.
In her presentation she will show extracts from "Faith in Infrastructure", by the http://theerrorists.com/
Gordan Savicic (AT/NL) is an artist playing with software algorithms, experimental media and fine art. His works includes game art, interactive/passive installations and speculative hardware. When Savicic enters the virtual world, it is a kind of political and technical experiment in which he disregards the assumed limitations of what is possible, allowing, instead, for the creation of new possibilities. The artist’s objective is realised by utilising every inch of his body, hence his alias: fleshgordo. In this research his projects are a materialized collision of informations systems and the human body.
As a member of the Ludic Society he co-developed 'pataboards, haptic interfaces and game fashion. With ZugZwangZukunft he developed various Arcade Machine Modifications which have been shown internationally. Together with Danja Vassiliev and Walter Langelaar he cofounded an artistic new media lab in Rotterdam called moddr_ in 2007. His participation in collaborative projects and performances have been shown in several countries, such as Japan (dis-locate), Germany (Transmediale), Spain (Arco Madrid), France (IRCAM) and the Netherlands (V2_), among others. Savicic lives and works in Rotterdam and Vienna.
Anette Schäfer is the director of Trampoline, an artist-led organisation that has been running regular platform events for new media art in Nottingham and Berlin for the last 10 years. She is also one of the founders of the East Midlands based Radiator Festival for New Technology Art and is a member of Regional Arts Council England, East Midlands.
With her special interest in the live aspect of media art, Anette has curated and commissioned artists’ projects exploring live-streaming and locative media where issues of presence, interactivity and participation in urban space are most current. Recent curated projects include; Heath Bunting, The Status Project, An A-Z of the System (phase 2) Exhibition, Broadway Media Centre Nottingham; Do Billboards Dream of Electric Screens? Video Screenings in the Public Realm in Derby, Leicester and Nottingham as part of Urban Screens Conference. Anette holds an MA in film & theatre studies and philosophy from the Freie University of Berlin.
radiator-festival.org www.trampoline-berlin.de www.trampoline.org.uk
Dr Holger Schnädelbach has a strong research interest in the spatial aspects of the relationship between physical and virtual environments, driven by his academic background in Architecture. He has experience in designing, implementing and evaluating Mixed Reality systems, and this work has resulted in publications in leading conferences and journals, such as ACM CHI, TOCHI, CSCW and Presence. He currently holds a Leverhulme Fellowship at the Mixed Reality Laboratory (University of Nottingham), exploring Adaptive Architecture.
Simon Sheikh is a curator and critic. He is an Assistant Professor of Art Theory and a Coordinator of the Critical Studies Program, Malmö Art Academy in Sweden. He was director of Overgaden – Institute for Contemporary Art in Copenhagen, 1999-2002 and Curator at NIFCA, Helsinki, 2003-2004. Editor of the magazine Øjeblikket 1996-2000, and a member of the project group GLOBE 1993-2000.
Curatorial work includes exhibitions such as Exclusion, Consul, Århus, 1993, I Confess, Nikolaj – Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, 1995, Escape Attempts in Christiania, Copenhagen, 1996 (with GLOBE), Do-It-Yourself – Mappings and Instructions, Bricks+Kicks, Vienna, 1997, In My Room, Nordic Video, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1998, Models of Resistance, Overgaden, Copenhagen 2000 (with GLOBE), Naust Øygarden, Bergen, Norway 2000, Circa Berlin, Nikolaj – Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, 2005 and Capital (It Fails Us Now) at UKS, Oslo, 2005 and Kunstihoone, Tallinn, 2006.
Recent publications include the anthologies We are all Normal (with Katya Sander), Black Dog Publishing, London 2001, Knut Åsdam (monograph), Fine Arts Unternehmen, Zug, 2004, In the Place of the Public Sphere?, b_books, Berlin, 2005 and Capital (It Fails Us Now), b_books, Berlin, 2006. A collection of his essays is forthcoming from b_books in the fall of 2008. His writings can also be found in such periodicals as Afterall, AnArchitectur, Open, Springerin and Texte zur Kunst. Lives in Berlin and Copenhagen.
Laura Sillars is Head of the artistic programme at FACT leading on the research, exhibitions, collaborations and education programme.
Stanza is currently a recipient of an AHRC creative fellowship 2006-9 for a project called The Emergent City, researching sensors and the impact of live data in the architectural and urban environment and is based at Goldsmiths College University Of London. Stanza was also awarded a NESTA dreamtime fellowship in 2004.
Recent exhibitions include; Dislocate. Koiwa Art Space Tokyo Japan; the New Forest Pavilion Artsway, Venice Biennale, Italy; Mundo Urbano Madrid, Spain; Haifa Museum Israel; ‘My Dear Malevich’, Novosibirsk Festival Exhibition, Russia.
www.stanza.co.uk
Mike Stubbs is Director and Chief Executive of FACT. Jointly appointed by John Moores Liverpool University he is Professor of Art, Media and Curating. Encompassing a broad range of arts and media practice his arts management, curating and artwork has been internationally acknowledged. He was the founder of the International Root Festival 1989.
http://www.fact.co.uk/news/?id=64
http://www.forma.org.uk/artists/mike_stubbs.html
Kuba Szreder – graduate at the sociology department of Jagiellonian University (Krakow). He works as a curator of interdisciplinary projects at the intersection of contemporary art, social criticality and political activity. He has a wide experience of curating projects in public space, which were summarized in the conference “Opening of spaces. Localization of public art”, which he organized in Warsaw in October 2007. He is initiator and curator of public art festival “Passengers” in Warsaw. As an author he cooperates with internet platform and art magazine “Obieg”, published by Contemporary Art Centre in Warsaw and other polish art magazines. He also works with ha!art publishing (Krakow), which released book “Industrial Town Futurism” (edited together with Ewa Majewska and Martin Kaltwasser), a summary of years long research and exhibition project. German edition was published by Revolver Verlag in 2007. Currently he works on new anthology about public space “Bubbles and fences”, to be published in 2009.
Andreas Wittel is now a lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities at Nottingham Trent University. He teaches and researches new media and the culture of the new economy and is also part of the Theory, Culture and Society Centre. Previously he was a research associate at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London. He studied Cultural Studies and Political Science in Tübingen (Germany), Eugene (Oregon) and Santiago de Chile. Andreas worked a few years as a free lance journalist and gave seminars for the German trade unions. Since 1996 he holds a PhD in Social Science from the University of Tübingen. The book called Belegschaftskultur im Schatten der Firmenideologie is an ethnographic case study of the way employees of a multinational company in the information industry deal with their corporate ideology.
Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Member, The Committee on Global Thought, at Columbia University. Her new book is Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages ( Princeton University Press 2006) and A Sociology of Globalization (Norton 2007). She wrote a lead essay in the 2006 Venice Biennale of Architecture Catalogue and has now completed for UNESCO a five-year project on sustainable human settlement based on a network of researchers and activists in over 30 countries; it is published as one of the volumes of the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) (Oxford, UK: EOLSS Publishers) http://www.eolss.net . Her books are translated into nineteen languages. She has written for The Guardian, The New York Times, OpenDemocracy.net, Le Monde Diplomatique, the International Herald Tribune, Newsweek International, the Financial Times, among others.
In her presentation she will show extracts from "Faith in Infrastructure", by the http://theerrorists.com/
Saul Albert
Saul Albert is an artist from London whose work emerged from the intersection of 'net art, DIY culture and the Free Software movement in the 90's and continues to develop speculative forms of participatory culture, business, technology and governance.
In 2006 he and Mikey Weinkove co-founded The People Speak: a participatory public art, media and technology collective creating 'tools for the world to take over itself'. From 'Talkaoke': the flying
saucer of chat (http://talkaoke.com) to 'Who Wants to Be' (http://whowantstobe.co.uk), the direct-democracy game show, each project exploring public space through open public conversation.
Richard Barbrook
Dr. Richard Barbrook is the author of Pluto Press’s Spring 2007 release Imaginary Futures and has also written a number of highly influential essays on the clash between commerce and cooperation within the Internet, including ‘The Hi-Tech Gift Economy’, ‘Cyber-communism’, ‘The Regulation of Liberty’ and, with Andy Cameron, ‘The Californian Ideology’, published in 1995 it was a controversial critique of the neo-liberal politics of Wired magazine. He has recently published a book on the social groups shaping the information society, The Class of the New (2006). During the early 1980s, he was involved in pirate and community radio broadcasting and helped establish Spectrum Radio, a multi-lingual station in London, and published extensively on radio issues. Between 1995 and 2005, he coordinated the pioneering Hypermedia Research Centre at the University of Westminster and was course leader of its MA in Hypermedia Studies, the first of its kind on offer in Britain. Educated at Cambridge, Essex and Kent Universities, Barbrook is currently a Senior Lecturer of Politics at the University of Westminster.
Duncan Campbell
Scottish born Duncan Campbell has for the past 25 years been an investigative journalist, author, consultant and television producer specialising in technology, privacy, civil liberties and secrecy issues. As well as founding his own production company, Campbell has also been the Chairman of the British political weekly the New Statesman.
IPTV Ltd, went on to make investigative documentaries such as “Undercover Britain” for Britain’s Channel 4 television and has contributed documentary material and inserts for Channel 4 News and Newsnight.
Since 2002 he has frequently served as a scientific expert witness in UK criminal and civil court cases involving telecommunications, computers, defence issues and electronic surveillance. He also participated in a further investigation of private military companies and global mercenary activities from which reports were published and known internationally as “The Business of War”.
Miles Chalcraft is an artist, curator and festival organiser, being one of the founder members of the new media arts organisation Trampoline, currently in its tenth year.
Through Trampoline, Miles runs the artists’ platform event bearing the organisations’ name both in Nottingham and Berlin and is also a director of the East Midlands’ new technology art festival and symposium, Radiator.
Miles also works as a video artist with renowned performance group, Gob Squad and has exhibited his own work as filmmaker and rocket artist throughout Germany and the UK.
David Crouch
Professor Emeritus Cultural Geography University of Derby UK, Visiting Professor Universities of Karlstad and Kalmar, Sweden; processes of constituting space, writing includes critical conceptual work on everyday life, landscape, nature, art practice, democracy and space; author of many academic papers, editor of leisure/tourism geographies Routledge 1999; Visual Culture and Tourism Berg 2003, The Media and the Tourist Imagination: convergent cultures Routledge 2005 and author, The Allotment: its landscape and culture, Faber 5th ed 2007 Five Leaves and also The Art of Allotments; currently writing Flirting [with] space: journeys and creativity, Ashgate 2010. exhibiting artist, television contributor and producer.
Neil Cummings
Neil Cummings is an artist, professor of Theory and Practice at Chelsea College of Art&Design, and Trustee of Nottingham Contemporary.
Cummings is interested in how digital archives and data banks are becoming part of the new architecture of our cities, and the conflicts that surround the property rights in public resources.
For the Radiator Symposium, Neil Cummings will present “The Social Cinema”, a project that turned un-built spaces into auditoria and spectacularly intervened in neglected places around landmark buildings. The film programme of “The Social Cinema” traced an evolution in the moving-image representation of everyday life. From the observer and observed of classic documentaries, to contemporary participation in those representations through mobile technologies.
Selected recent projects
2008 Lapdogs, Lapdogs of the Bourgeiose Townhouse Gallery Cairo, Egypt
Post-Production, Manifesta7 Bolzano, Italy
Museum Futures: Distributed Moderna Museet, Stockholm Sweden
2007 Parade the Contour Film Biennial, Mechelen Belgium,
2006 Social Cinema various public spaces Architectural Biennale, London
Screen Tests British Art Show Six.
2005 – 06 Enthusiasm, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Kunst Werke, Berlin; Tapies Foundation, Barcelona
2004 The Commons, International section, Liverpool Biennial.
2002 Free Trade, Manchester Art Gallery
2001 Capital, Tate Modern, London
http://www.chanceprojects.com
Glenn Davidson is Artist / Co-Director of Artstation the Cardiff based a multi-disciplinary art and technology partnership run with Anne Hayes. He studied Art and Cybernetics. Artstation are known for their international architectural installations, film, interactive media, architectural design, social interventions, and publishing. Glenn is a social entrepreneur and fellow of the Royal Society for Arts (FRSA), a consultant to business and public sector organisations. He has lectured and presented at conferences on art, media and sustainability. His work quoted as “a question of questions” tickles the roots of climate change, through this latest Radiator commission asking “are your electrical appliances controlling you?”, “is your default ON or OFF”.
Régine Debatty (BE) writes about the intersection between art, design and technology on we-make-money-not-art.com as well as on various design and art magazines. She curates art shows and lectures internationally about the way artists, hackers and interaction designers (mis)use technology.
Charlie Gere
Charlie Gere is Head of Department and Reader in New Media Research in the Institute for Cultural Research as well as Chair of Computers in History of Art (CHArt) at Lancaster University. He is also the author of Digital Culture (Reaktion Books, 2002), and Art, Time and Technology (Berg, 2006). In 2007 Gere co-curated FEEDBACK, a major exhibition of responsive art in Gijon, Spain.
As part of the Radiator Festival&Symposium, “A conversation with Charlie Gere”, will happen at 7pm on Thursday 15 January at QUAD Box, Derby
Peter Goodwin - Accelerate Nottingham
Peter Goodwin is currently seconded from the Greater Nottingham Partnership (GNP) as Executive Director of Accelerate Nottingham, the strategic ICT partnership for Greater Nottingham. Goodwin has also led Nottingham’s Digital Challenge bid culminating in Nottingham becoming part of the “Digital Challenge Network” looking at the Next Generation Broadband and Wireless provision in Nottingham city.
Peter Goodwin qualified as an Environmental Health Officer in 1975 and gained the Institute of Housing’s Professional Qualification in 1983. He began his career with Tameside MBC in Greater Manchester, where he specialised in housing area renewal programmes, before moving to Nottingham City Council in 1987 to head up the Renewal Section.
In 1998 he was seconded to the Greater Nottingham Partnership, a regeneration partnership funded and supported by all the main stakeholders in the Greater Nottingham conurbation and also the sub-regional partnership for the East Midlands Development Agency. He has led or facilitated a number of regeneration programmes covering a range of subjects such as health, crime, transport and community empowerment including New Commitment to Regeneration and New Deal for Communities. He was a member of the LGA working group looking at the early guidance for the establishment of LSPs.
He is currently seconded from the GNP as Executive Director of Accelerate Nottingham, the strategic ICT partnership for Greater Nottingham. While in this role he led Nottingham’s Digital Challenge bid which culminated in Nottingham earning a place among the ten national finalists and becoming part of the Digital Challenge Network.
He has facilitated the delivery of a number of ICT projects tackling social and digital exclusion and has been involved in a number of WiFi projects aimed at providing municipal wireless in open public areas.
Usman Haque
Usman Haque, director Haque Design + Research, www.haque.co.uk has created responsive environments, interactive installations, digital interface devices and mass-participation performances. His skills include the design of both physical spaces and the software and systems that bring them to life. He has been an invited researcher at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Italy, artist-in-residence at the International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences, Japan and has also worked in USA, UK and Malaysia. As well as directing the work of Haque Design + Research he was until 2005 a teacher in the Interactive Architecture Workshop at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London. Usman is a recipient of the 2008 Design of the Year Award (interactive) from the Design Museum, UK, a Wellcome Trust Sciart Award, a grant from the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology, the Swiss Creation Prize, Belluard Bollwerk International, the Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence prize and the Asia Digital Art Award Grand Prize. Haque Design + Research specialises in the design and research of interactive architecture systems. Architecture is no longer considered something static and immutable; instead it is seen as dynamic, responsive and conversant.
JODI
JODI explores the relations between the world we build through the Internet and the one based on our past mental and physical maps. Services such as GoogleMaps™ have changed our worldview radically by making the Globe accessible as a commercial multi-user surface.
As part of Radiator’s Digital Broadway Programme, Radiator will present “Geo Goo” on Broadway’s Glass Screen, where JODI uses a process of coding/decoding, and deciphers cryptic data in a chaotic surface to uncover hidden messages in geometric shapes.
JODI will also be presenting the Broadway Live Lecture in association with Nottingham Trent University on Friday 16 January at 11:00.
www.jodi.org
Dr. Susanne Jaschko (*1967) is an Amsterdam based curator and researcher in contemporary visual art and digital culture.
As off March 2008 she is head of presentation and the artist in residence programme at the Netherlands Media Art Institute. Besides she continues independent curating.
From 2000-2004 she was deputy director and curator of transmediale – international media art festival berlin. From 1997 – 1999 she worked as a programme assistant, later as curator at the transmediale.
In 2004 she became an independent curator.
Past curatorial projects include a travelling show entitled “Open House. - Architecture and Technology for Intelligent Living” that suggest future designs of homes in an era of extensive application of technology, sustainable ecology, urbanism and an over aged society. This show is produced by the Vitra Design Museum, Germany, and Art Center, College of Design, Pasadena, USA.
In addition, she currently curated the SCAPE Biennial 2006 dedicated to art in public space, in Christchurch, New Zealand and an international series of exhibitions entitled “urban interface” which happened in Oslo and Berlin in 2007.
In 2005 and 2006 she taught at the Academy of Applied arts in Potsdam in the department of European Media Science. In 2005 a grant for researcher in residence at the Daniel Langlois Foundation in Montréal enabled a research about “The temporal and spatial design of early film and video-based installation art, its perception and effect on the visitors’ action”.
In 2004, she twice visited the Statens Kunstakadmie in Oslo, Norway, as a guest teacher. In 2003 she was a guest teacher at the Leipzig University, Germany, where she taught in the department of media science and communication.
In 1999 she co-ordinated the conference "monomedia:value" on new values in media design at the University of the Arts, Berlin in 1999/2000.
She wrote her doctorate thesis about “Self-portraiture and self-understanding in the painting of the GDR from 1945 to the 80ies” at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Hochschule Aachen, Germany.
During her studies she casually wrote for newspapers and magazines about art and culture. Moreover she assisted in two Berlin galleries, the “Projektraum Berlin” and “Dogenhaus Galerie Berlin”, where she initiated and organised contemporary art shows. In 1995 she curated and organised the show “Entgrenzungen” presenting young artists from East Germany, for the Ludwig Forum, Aachen.
As a jury member she has participated in a number of national and international competitions in media art visual arts and digital culture. Moreover she lectures internationally and gives presentations on media art and digital culture.
Folke Köbberling&Martin Kaltwasser have exhibited in Germany and increasingly internationally. Their first Uk project in summer 2008 was a residency at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, where they built “Amphis”. In 2009 they will be artists in residence at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw/Poland, at Villa Serpentara in Olevano,/Italy as well as the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas, USA.
The artists / architects have been dealing with the conditions of urban living in their projects since 2002, and they call upon us to go back to the idea of the city as a resource. By using materials that they have found, they offer a critique of the wastefulness inherent in capitalism.
www.koebberlingkaltwasser.de
Rob van Kranenburg (1964) is Head of Public Domain at Waag Society. He is an innovation and media theorist involved with negotiability strategies of new technologies and artistic practice, predominantly ubicomp and rfid (radio frequency identification), the relationship between the formal and informalin cultural and economic policy, and the requirements for a sustainable cultural economy.
He went to work with Prof Ronald Soetaert in Ghent, in the Educational Department, developing online learning modules, methods and concepts drawing on the idea of multiliteracies. In 2000 he went to Amsterdam as programmer on media education at the centre for culture and politics de Balie and as teacher-coordinator of the new media program in the Film and Television Studies Department at the University of Amsterdam. Feeling it was to young a field to predominantly historize it, he moved to Doors of Perception and co-programmed with John Thackara Doors 7, Flow, the design challenge of pervasive computing. In 2003 he mentored a postgraduate course in performance, theatre and the arts at APT, Arts Performance Theatricality. For the past three years he has been working part time at Virtual Platform, Dutch policy and network organization for e-culture, as interim and co-director and programme manager. He taught media theory at Post St Joost (MA Autonomous Art), HKU EMMA (MA Interaction Design) and Medialab Amsterdam (teamcoach). As a freelancer Rob has worked for and with Mediamatic, Waag Society for Old and New Media, TEKS Trondheim, JISC, CTI Patras, Atlantis SA, Open University Netherlands, City of Breda, Institute of Network Cultures, Hobeon, V2,&Technical University Eindhoven, Industrial Design. He is a cofounder of Bricolabs.
Joost van Loon
Joost Van Loon is the Professor of Media Analysis at the Institute for Cultural Analysis, The Nottingham Trent University. Van Loon is also founding co-editor of the journal Space and Culture, an international refereed academic journal of research into everyday social spaces.
Central themes in Van Loon’s research are media-technology, risk and the knowledge-based economy. Theoretically, his work aims to develop connections between Media Ecology Theory, Actor Network Theory and Phenomenology.
N55 is a platform for people who want to work together to share economy and means of production. Current artists responsible for N55:
Ion Sørvin Co-founder of N55 in 1994
Education: The Royal Danish Academy of Art, Copenhagen 1991- 1998. Member of Kunstnersamfundet
Øivind Alexander Slaatto
Education: Danish school of design (Danmarks Designskole), 2002- 2007. Royal Danish Academy of Music, 1998- 2002
For the Radiator festival, N55 are working as the N55 INTELLIGENCE AGENCY [NIA]. The N55 [NIA] is dedicated to gathering information about concentrations of power. The purpose of NIA is to uncover and make visible the plans, strategies and tactics of such organizations.
The focus of the N55 [NIA] is on the effects of concentrations of power that are less visible than major power structures yet have their influences felt within everyday life.
Krzysztof Nawratek
Krzysztof Nawratek is an architect, urban designer, urban planner and social geographer. He is also Lecturer at the School of Architecture and Design, Faculty of Art, University of Plymouth.
Nawratek’s research can be found in the books "Political Ideologies in Space; Demystifications Exercises" and "City as a political idea", which focus on the social and political structures of architecture, urbanism and the city. Krzysztof Nawratek is currently working on a project focused on the city as a machine of oppression.
Ian Nesbitt
Since becoming an artist, Ian has variously co-founded Stand Assembly – www.standassembly.org – in 2004, was instrumental in bringing about the existence of Moot – www.mootgallery.org – in 2005, has had a parallel career in homeless mental health, and worked immersively on video, social documentary, community engagement and research projects all over Sneinton and beyond.
In 2007, Ian founded Annexinema with Emily Wilczek – www.annexinema.org – an organisation working outside of the cinema or gallery environment to put on visionary and cutting edge artists’ work in all areas of sound and moving image and from all corners of the globe.
Ian’s work has been shown internationally including at Liverpool Biennial 2006 and Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art.
Saskia Sassen
Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Member, The Committee on Global Thought, at Columbia University. Her new book is Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages ( Princeton University Press 2006) and A Sociology of Globalization (Norton 2007). She wrote a lead essay in the 2006 Venice Biennale of Architecture Catalogue and has now completed for UNESCO a five-year project on sustainable human settlement based on a network of researchers and activists in over 30 countries; it is published as one of the volumes of the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) (Oxford, UK: EOLSS Publishers) http://www.eolss.net . Her books are translated into nineteen languages. She has written for The Guardian, The New York Times, OpenDemocracy.net, Le Monde Diplomatique, the International Herald Tribune, Newsweek International, the Financial Times, among others.
In her presentation she will show extracts from "Faith in Infrastructure", by the http://theerrorists.com/
Gordan Savicic (AT/NL) is an artist playing with software algorithms, experimental media and fine art. His works includes game art, interactive/passive installations and speculative hardware. When Savicic enters the virtual world, it is a kind of political and technical experiment in which he disregards the assumed limitations of what is possible, allowing, instead, for the creation of new possibilities. The artist’s objective is realised by utilising every inch of his body, hence his alias: fleshgordo. In this research his projects are a materialized collision of informations systems and the human body.
As a member of the Ludic Society he co-developed 'pataboards, haptic interfaces and game fashion. With ZugZwangZukunft he developed various Arcade Machine Modifications which have been shown internationally. Together with Danja Vassiliev and Walter Langelaar he cofounded an artistic new media lab in Rotterdam called moddr_ in 2007. His participation in collaborative projects and performances have been shown in several countries, such as Japan (dis-locate), Germany (Transmediale), Spain (Arco Madrid), France (IRCAM) and the Netherlands (V2_), among others. Savicic lives and works in Rotterdam and Vienna.
Anette Schäfer is the director of Trampoline, an artist-led organisation that has been running regular platform events for new media art in Nottingham and Berlin for the last 10 years. She is also one of the founders of the East Midlands based Radiator Festival for New Technology Art and is a member of Regional Arts Council England, East Midlands.
With her special interest in the live aspect of media art, Anette has curated and commissioned artists’ projects exploring live-streaming and locative media where issues of presence, interactivity and participation in urban space are most current. Recent curated projects include; Heath Bunting, The Status Project, An A-Z of the System (phase 2) Exhibition, Broadway Media Centre Nottingham; Do Billboards Dream of Electric Screens? Video Screenings in the Public Realm in Derby, Leicester and Nottingham as part of Urban Screens Conference. Anette holds an MA in film & theatre studies and philosophy from the Freie University of Berlin.
radiator-festival.org www.trampoline-berlin.de www.trampoline.org.uk
Dr Holger Schnädelbach has a strong research interest in the spatial aspects of the relationship between physical and virtual environments, driven by his academic background in Architecture. He has experience in designing, implementing and evaluating Mixed Reality systems, and this work has resulted in publications in leading conferences and journals, such as ACM CHI, TOCHI, CSCW and Presence. He currently holds a Leverhulme Fellowship at the Mixed Reality Laboratory (University of Nottingham), exploring Adaptive Architecture.
Simon Sheikh is a curator and critic. He is an Assistant Professor of Art Theory and a Coordinator of the Critical Studies Program, Malmö Art Academy in Sweden. He was director of Overgaden – Institute for Contemporary Art in Copenhagen, 1999-2002 and Curator at NIFCA, Helsinki, 2003-2004. Editor of the magazine Øjeblikket 1996-2000, and a member of the project group GLOBE 1993-2000.
Curatorial work includes exhibitions such as Exclusion, Consul, Århus, 1993, I Confess, Nikolaj – Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, 1995, Escape Attempts in Christiania, Copenhagen, 1996 (with GLOBE), Do-It-Yourself – Mappings and Instructions, Bricks+Kicks, Vienna, 1997, In My Room, Nordic Video, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1998, Models of Resistance, Overgaden, Copenhagen 2000 (with GLOBE), Naust Øygarden, Bergen, Norway 2000, Circa Berlin, Nikolaj – Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, 2005 and Capital (It Fails Us Now) at UKS, Oslo, 2005 and Kunstihoone, Tallinn, 2006.
Recent publications include the anthologies We are all Normal (with Katya Sander), Black Dog Publishing, London 2001, Knut Åsdam (monograph), Fine Arts Unternehmen, Zug, 2004, In the Place of the Public Sphere?, b_books, Berlin, 2005 and Capital (It Fails Us Now), b_books, Berlin, 2006. A collection of his essays is forthcoming from b_books in the fall of 2008. His writings can also be found in such periodicals as Afterall, AnArchitectur, Open, Springerin and Texte zur Kunst. Lives in Berlin and Copenhagen.
Laura Sillars is Head of the artistic programme at FACT leading on the research, exhibitions, collaborations and education programme.
Stanza is currently a recipient of an AHRC creative fellowship 2006-9 for a project called The Emergent City, researching sensors and the impact of live data in the architectural and urban environment and is based at Goldsmiths College University Of London. Stanza was also awarded a NESTA dreamtime fellowship in 2004.
Recent exhibitions include; Dislocate. Koiwa Art Space Tokyo Japan; the New Forest Pavilion Artsway, Venice Biennale, Italy; Mundo Urbano Madrid, Spain; Haifa Museum Israel; ‘My Dear Malevich’, Novosibirsk Festival Exhibition, Russia.
www.stanza.co.uk
Mike Stubbs is Director and Chief Executive of FACT. Jointly appointed by John Moores Liverpool University he is Professor of Art, Media and Curating. Encompassing a broad range of arts and media practice his arts management, curating and artwork has been internationally acknowledged. He was the founder of the International Root Festival 1989.
http://www.fact.co.uk/news/?id=64
http://www.forma.org.uk/artists/mike_stubbs.html
Kuba Szreder – graduate at the sociology department of Jagiellonian University (Krakow). He works as a curator of interdisciplinary projects at the intersection of contemporary art, social criticality and political activity. He has a wide experience of curating projects in public space, which were summarized in the conference “Opening of spaces. Localization of public art”, which he organized in Warsaw in October 2007. He is initiator and curator of public art festival “Passengers” in Warsaw. As an author he cooperates with internet platform and art magazine “Obieg”, published by Contemporary Art Centre in Warsaw and other polish art magazines. He also works with ha!art publishing (Krakow), which released book “Industrial Town Futurism” (edited together with Ewa Majewska and Martin Kaltwasser), a summary of years long research and exhibition project. German edition was published by Revolver Verlag in 2007. Currently he works on new anthology about public space “Bubbles and fences”, to be published in 2009.
Andreas Wittel is now a lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities at Nottingham Trent University. He teaches and researches new media and the culture of the new economy and is also part of the Theory, Culture and Society Centre. Previously he was a research associate at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London. He studied Cultural Studies and Political Science in Tübingen (Germany), Eugene (Oregon) and Santiago de Chile. Andreas worked a few years as a free lance journalist and gave seminars for the German trade unions. Since 1996 he holds a PhD in Social Science from the University of Tübingen. The book called Belegschaftskultur im Schatten der Firmenideologie is an ethnographic case study of the way employees of a multinational company in the information industry deal with their corporate ideology.
