This is mobility
Organised by ephemera, Capturing the Moving Mind: Management and Movement in the Age of Permanently Temporary War has just begun its journey as a uniquely mobile conference.
“The purpose of the conference is to gather a variety of creative thinkers - researchers, philosophers, artists, and others - who are interested in global culture and politics. The organizing topic of discussion for the conference has to do with the way institutionalized forms of power, especially national governments, are dealing with individual human beings, who are today so mobile and hard to track, govern and control. The spirit of the conference is to cross fixed boundaries and to create an environment that is open to the ‘contaminating influences’ of the communities through which the train will pass. In fact, the point of having the conference on a train is to escape any restrictions relating to a particular time or place.”
The conference takes place on the Trans-Siberian train as it travels from Moscow to Beijing via Novosibirsk between September 11 - 20, 2005.
There are also plans to turn the Trans-Siberian train “into a mobile radio station and experimental music laboratory, or a Train Station. Through the use of a low-power radio transmitter, [they] will utilize local FM signals and use them to broadcast audio from the train. Listeners in and outside the train will be able to hear the broadcast. Passengers on the moving train will interact with the station and help form its content.” And the rest of us can watch the live stream throughout their journey.
See also: Capturing the Moving Mind: An Introduction (pdf)
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