April 2009
Revising the Map: Modulated Mapping and The Spatial Interface is an essay by Jeremy Hight published in the most recent issue of the Parsons Journal for Information Mapping. The abstract for the text: The map can be active, malleable, open source fed, and even, in a sense, intelligent and able to adapt. The possibility also exists for this map to have a function that based on key words will search databases on-line to find maps, animations, histories and stories etc to place within it for your study and engagement. The map is thus a platform and yet is active. Community is possible as people can communicate graphically in works placed on the map and in building mode in the tool. All the tropes of locative media are to be in a mapping system of channels of augmentation and a spatial net. The software by design will allow development on the map and communication like programs such as second life but in mapping itself. You can download a PDF of the essay from a related post on Jeremy's blog. |
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[Angie Waller / The Most Boring Places in the World] A rather interesting email recently showed up in the Vague Terrain inbox announcing the launch of Photocartographies: Tattered Fragments of the Map. This initiative involves an art exhibition, an event series and a forthcoming publication all of which reconsider mapping and photographic representation. An excerpt from the description of the undertaking: Photography and cartography are entwined in similar processes of subject orientation that structure our experience of social, environmental and virtual landscapes. A map is not a representation so much as a system of propositions. This project reveals mapping itself as a generative process of knowledge creation, a liberatory method for re-imagining and re-imaging our world, its built and natural environments, and the relationship between space and place. Participating artists include: Anthony Auerbach, Katherine E. Bash, Noah Beil, Cris Benton, Frank Gohlke, Gregory Michael Hernandez, David Horvitz, David Maisel, Adam Ryder, Oraib Toukan, Angie Waller and Nikolas Schiller. You can get more information on this Los Angeles-based project at tatteredfragments.info. |
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