Comob takes part in ‘Mapping Manchester’ at the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester.
Mapping Manchester
Wednesday 24th November 7.30pm-10pm
The evening will include the distribution of Contemporary Cartography //01 a pocket map detailing the creative spaces of Manchester and Salford alongside works by Manchester Modernist Society, Nogo Voyages, The Chapel Street Exchange, Manchester Municipal Design Corporation and students from [...]
Come and join us for another comob workshop at Territorial Play in Nottingham this week.
http://www.trampoline.org.uk/tracingmobility/territorial-play
Territorial Play
Broadway Media Centre, Nottingham & Various Locations across the city
14 May
12pm – 12am
PERFORMANCES, SCREENINGS & ARTISTS TALKS
Taking a curatorial lead from the wider themes of Radiator’s Tracing Mobility programme, Trampoline will present the first in a new [...]
This image is of a really collaborative drawing processes at the workshop. This was a mode of reflecting on the walks everyone had just done, and created the images in the last blog post. Each participant was asked to trace their location as it was played back in the projection, and draw links to other [...]
The workshop on Saturday went well despite the drizzly rain. We spent some time discussing the quality of the line that connects people, how it could be springy, ricochet, spark, stretch and hide depending on your relationship to that person. We tried some different excersizes like walking away from each other and then using comob [...]
I’ve borrowed two N96 phones from the mobilities lab at Lancaster Uni for our workshop on Saturday. After buying a couple of 3G sim cards for them and topping them up with £10 each, I was ready to install. I bluetoothed the comobnet.jar file to them both (they had been named Galileo and Beidon so [...]
DESIGNING ENVIRONMENTS FOR LIFE WORKSHOPS
Comob: Citizen Cartography with GPS
With Jen Southern and Chris Speed
Saturday 23rd January
1-4pm (with coffee break).
This workshop is an experiment in group mapping and introduces a new
tool for discussing environmental issues in the city. Using a GPS phone
application we will explore how environmental issues are experienced, on
the ground, during a group walk [...]
An exciting new exhibition is launching at Dundee Contemporary Arts’ Visual Research Centre on Friday 15th January and running until 30th January.
The Designing Environments for Life exhibition provides evidence, traces, of an exploration in 2009 between anthropologists, artists and designers in rethinking the concept of ‘environment’. Their exploration sought to situate the experience of living [...]
I met with Paul Coulton today from infolab21 at Lancaster University who has been working with a student to make the new Nokia version of comobnet.
I had some trouble with it on my N95 because I was using 2G sim card and was having problems with my GPS connectivity.
Paul showed me the app working properly [...]
Great workshop in Manchester. There were three people in each group, and participants got really involved in discussing the relationship between the ground and the map.
A great description emerged from conversation, about movement shifting from the feet to the head when you stop walking to negotiate with your group.
The more we participated in the workshop [...]