The Daily Practice of Map Making and Data Collection

Location: B floor conference room, Sir Colin Campbell Building
Date(s): Tuesday 17th November 2009 (12:15-13:15)
Contact: Samantha Stapleford Tel: 0115 9514225 Email: samantha.stapleford@nottingham.ac.uk
Description: Speaker: Dan Belasco Rogers
In 2001 Dan Belasco Rogers received an Artsadmin Artists' Bursary to develop his work and he was subsequently commissioned to make Unfallen by the Arnolfini in Bristol with the first performance in February 2003 followed by further performances in Manchester, Gent, Helsinki, Frankfurt, Sydney, Perth and Berlin. He will present his ongoing work of collecting everywhere he goes with a GPS since 2003, explain the motivations that led him to this practice before explaining why his partner in art and life decided to collect all of her daily movements also. He will explain their practice of cataloguing all the text messages they send each other and the resultant performance pieces in a football stadium in Finland and Tempelhof airport in Berlin. He will also present a selection of their collaborative work with locative media that dates back to 2004 and has led to projects in London, Berlin, Austria and Belgium. Finally he will introduce their current work of expanding on their data collections and presenting the most intimate and sensitive information as it is created to a live audience in an installation.

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