Jacopo De Barbari. Woodcut Map of Venice. 1500.
Mapping as memory. Memory as reality. Reality as distortion. Distortion as bias. Bias as truth. Truth as mapping.
Daily Archives: May 18, 2017
FollowVillage Voices: An Audio Walking Tour of the Cathedral Area
Evie Ruddy is a digital media artist, freelance journalist and creative writer, specializing in digital story telling. “Village Voices: An Audio Walking Tour of the Cathedral Area,” while evidently a form of digital story telling, is also a cybercartographic map. Cybercartography is defined as “The organization, presentation, analysis and communication of spatially referenced information on a wide range of topics of interest and use to society in an interactive, dynamic, multimedia and multi sensory format (Taylor, N.D., p.2).”
This interactive, GPS located and triggered audio map shares personal and collective histories through a multi-media multi-sensory experience, facilitated through a smart phone audio guide application called izi.TRAVEL. This map prioritizes spatially located qualitative information over the creation of a graphic artifact. Its significance lies in its content, its utility, and its focus of performance and narrative.
When it comes to learning about our environments in all capacities this fully immersive and ’bottom-up’ method of communicating location-based information is very meaningful. It triggers emotional responses to location based information
One of the short fallings of this map is it its reliance access to smart phone technology. Only those privileged with the ability to spend 100$+/mo on a phone plan have access to the full, 1:1 audio map experience. This platform also relies heavily on the use of Google Maps imagery, appropriating the issues that come along side it.
SOAK – Mumbai in an Estuary
SOAK: Mumbai in an Estuary is series of maps by Anuradha Mathur and Dilip Da Cunha . Their digitally constructed representations of Mumbai in and estuary were originally displayed as prints in the national gallery of New Delhi. Their work is a response to the 2005 floods in Mumbai. The way which they chose to record the shoreline is a critique against the type of maps made by proponents of 20th c. flood control measures like the first map I have included in the PDF.
Please take a look and take a look and try to guess the thesis of their work and I will be happy to discuss it with you later 🙂
Listening to trees.
Chaitrali’s project made me think of what kind of objects you can play with a record player, because records are a 3D representation of sound. Here is a tree’s life mapped with sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB6Sn_yC3AE
What is producing invisibility?
This Paper entitled “Their Spirits Live within Us
Aboriginal Women in Downtown Eastside Vancouver
Emerging into Visibility” by Dara Culhane demonstrates the production of invisibility of Aboriginal women in the Downtown Eastside and how those women resist this invisibility. Interesting article picked from the reading list of my GRSJ elective course.
Mapping the Lost City Of Z: A Movie Recommendation
About The Lost City of Z:
Based on author David Grann’s nonfiction bestseller, THE LOST CITY OF Z tells the incredible true story of British explorer Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam), who journeys into the Amazon at the dawn of the 20th century and discovers evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization that may have once inhabited the region. Despite being ridiculed by the scientific establishment who regard indigenous populations as “savages,” the determined Fawcett – supported by his devoted wife (Sienna Miller), son (Tom Holland) and aide de camp (Robert Pattinson) – returns time and again to his beloved jungle in an attempt to prove his case, culminating in his mysterious disappearance in 1925. An epically-scaled tale of courage and obsession, told in Gray’s classic filmmaking style, THE LOST CITY OF Z is a stirring tribute to the exploratory spirit and those individuals driven to achieve greatness at any cost.
What else do readers of your favorite author read?
SO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET BEING WIRELESS…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rlUPWpLWOw
Insightful video that maps the undersea cables spanning the globe in order to power the internet. Interesting to note the expansive and comprehensive layout of the cables as well as the countries that some cables connect and do not connect to.
Mapping Our Common Traits – “Commonalities” by Atelier Bow-Wow
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ATELIER BOW-WOW
Atelier Bow-Wow’s book Commonalities (2014) is an attempt to map out what could be changed and what could not be changed. Their mappings are processes of answering the question “Why is that there?”. Hence, making the commonalities of our behaviors visible.
(Source: Atelier Bow-Wow)
