4th Radiator Festival and Symposium: Exploits in the Wireless City :: January 13-18, 2008 :: Nottingham, UK :: Launch Event: January 14, 6:00 -11:00 pm — Broadway Media Centre, Backlit (tbc), Surface Gallery.

Exploits in the Wireless City aims to instigate discussion, debate and new interdisciplinary research networks based on the understanding that the development of digital networks are transforming our notion of space.

GOING UNDERGROUND: Through its artistic interventions, Radiator will put theory into practice with projects and events that both position and challenge the dominant forces at work in the urban environment and explore the new territories opened up by new hybrid spaces. Radiator will set up investigations into this infrastructure by placing 5 artists into the urban confines of British cities in the Going Underground project: Glenn Davidson (Artstation) [UK] Folke Kobberling & Martin Kaltwasser [DE] Ian Nesbitt [UK] Christian Nold [UK] N55 [DK].

These artists will act as sleeper agents, observing and gathering information from a range of different sources including; architects, planning departments, city council offices, surveillance, monitoring centre’s and the Police to create new work in response to their research

RADIATOR SYMPOSIUM :: January 15 – 16, 2009 :: Broadway Media Centre, Nottingham : Bringing together artists with architects, urban theorists, computer scientists, sociologists and fellow citizens, the symposium will explore, question and play with a new urban landscape where the re-conceptualizing of the public sphere in the regeneration developments of the East Midlands mirror those around Europe.

SPEAKERS INCLUDE: SAUL ALBERT: Co-organiser of Dorkbot, and co-founder of The People Speak, UK; RICHARD BARBROOK: Critic of the neo-liberal cyber-elite, University of Westminster, Department of Politics & IR, UK; DUNCAN CAMPBELL: Freelance Investigative Journalist, UK; DAVID CROUCH: Professor Emeritus in Cultural Geography and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Derby, UK; NEIL CUMMINGS: Professor of Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art & Design, UK; SEAN DODSON: The Guardian, UK; CHARLIE GERE: Director of Research at the Institute for Cultural Research at Lancaster University UK; PETER GOODWIN: Executive Director of Accelerate Nottingham, the leading think-tank on ICT issues for the Greater Nottingham area, UK; USMAN HAQUE: Architect & Artist, UK; JODI: pioneer net artist duo – Joan Heemskerke/NL and Dirk Paesmans/BE; ROB VAN KRANENBURG: The Waag Society, NL; JOOST VAN LOON: Institute for Cultural Analysis Nottingham Trent University, UK; KRZYSZTOF NAWRAREK: Lecturer in Architecture, University of Plymouth; SASKIA SASSEN: Sociologist and economist noted for her analyses of globalisation and international human migration, USA; GORDON SAVICIC: Artist, AT/NL; KUBA SZREDER: Independent Curator, PL; HOLGER SCHNADELBACH (tbc): Mixed Reality Laboratory, University of Nottingham, UK.

OBSERVERS AND ADVISERS: SARAH COOK: Researcher, co-founder and co-editor of CRUMB (the Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss), an online resource for curators, producers, commissioners and exhibitors of new media art, UK; REGINE DEBATTY: Initiated we-make-money-not-art.com a weblog for critical media art and cultural discourse, BE/DE; ALESSANDRO LUDOVICO: Editor of Neural Magazine, IT; LAURA SILLARS: Head of Programming at FACT, Liverpool, UK.

DISLOCATE: Dislocate is a project based in Japan presenting an annual festival in Tokyo/Yokohama that investigates the relationship between new media and the environment and the creative potentials and commentaries which exist. Dislocate has been working closely with Trampoline for a number of years, as part of the festival Dislocate will be presenting an exhibition, film screening and artist talk. Dis-locate will also be making a presentation as part of the Radiator symposium introducing a selection of recent projects and contributing to the discussion. Akihiko Taniguchi [JP] Yuko Mohri [JP] Michiko Tsuda [JP] Mizuki Watanbe [JP] Leona Misu [JP] Son Woo Kyung [JP] Shunsuke Watanabe [JP] Ryosuke Akiyoshi [JP].

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