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. The result, made only from sounds recorded in Morecambe, is a blend of processed voices, horse's hooves, bicycles,...
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...
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. Our main goal was to...
The mobslab experiment drone on its way to an artists residency in Lydney with Rebecca Birch from LICA.
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. I used buses, trains, and...
During the Captured in Motion workshop last Friday two of us attempted to capture sensory information that is difficult to record with technology, things that are tactile or kinaesthetic, or smells that we pass through as we walk down a street. We tried to tune...
Trying to capture sensory information. What does it feel like to shake hands? Captured with a wrist mounted GoPro.
I'm just finishing the last of two visits I've made in May and June, as a CeMoRe Visiting Research Fellow. It’s been a great chance to catch up with people, meet some new people and generally get head space for research somewhere that's something of a spiritual...
Transport In The Media - a symposium with Rachel Aldred, CeMoRe Visiting Research Fellow on 9 & 10 June 2014 This interdisciplinary symposium explores relationships between transport policy and practice, academic research, and the media. It includes presentations,...