Introduction to the class and each other.
Set up critique format.
Discuss different perspectives on mapping.
Examples of map/mapping art.
Introducing yourselves with a piece of work.
A Map of Itself Art & Language
http://archives.carre.pagesperso-orange.fr/Art-Language-Map.jpg
The City Formerly Known as Cambridge The Institutely Small Things
http://www.ikatun.com/institute/rename/
Axis of Evil Charbel Ackermann
http://irvinecontemporary.com/newsletters/index.php?newsletterID=55
The Green(er) Side of the Line Alban Biaussat
http://www.albanbiaussat.com/index_GLimages1.html
Ground Plan Louisa Bufardeci
http://www.louisabufardeci.net/site/pages/gp.html
Moss Maps Nina Katchadourian
http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/maps/mossmaps.php
LA Bloom Joyce
http://www.joycecampbell.com/collections/view/19
Daylight map Olafur Eliasson
http://www.artnet.com/artwork/425968088/173885/olafur-eliasson-daylight-map.html
Francis Alys When Faith Moves Mountain
http://www.ubu.com/film/alys_faith.html
Tangled Pathways Katie Holland Lewis
http://katiehollandlewis.com/tangled.html
Maps Corriette Schoenaerts
http://www.corrietteschoenaerts.com/
Urmayev III L3sph(8/6)7_98 Lilla Locurto and William Outcault
http://www.locurto-outcault.com/pages/selfportrait.map.html
Mount Fear, East London: Abigail Reynolds
http://www.abigailreynolds.com/mntF/mntFmain.html
San Franscisco Christian Nold
http://www.softhook.com/emot.htm
Silent London Simon Elvins
http://www.simonelvins.com/silent_london.html
Home of Richard Kimble Mark Bennett
http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/the_map_of_the_art/02tmota.php
Tilted Landscape Carl Cheng
http://www.publicartinla.com/sculptures/sm_art_tool.html
Jonas' Keys to City Paul Ramirez
http://www.8020nyc.com/uncategorized/paul-ramirez-jonas-key-to-the-city/
Jonathan Stilgoe, Outside Lies Magic, pp 1-58 (small pages, easy read)
Listen to This American Life Episode on Mapping
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/110/Mapping
Discuss reading.
Make a map whose boundaries are west of 13th Street, south of University, north of Museum and east of the stadium. You map will contain a beginning point that is a recognizable geographic location. Streets and roads will not necessarily lead the person that uses your map to a destination that is 10 minutes away by foot from the beginning point, but rather patterns of what you notice in the landscape will be what helps the people using the map navigate from beginning to end. Try not to rely on textual directions. Think about how maps use abstract symbols as a language to get one from here to there. The map can be in a variety of forms: paper, aural, even textural. Please include your cell phone number on the map. It must be easy to carry. Artist to look at to give you ideas about this assignment. If I think if more, I will add them. These are not necessarily examples of how you should make your maps, just some ideas about artists who notice in the landscape and make work that takes the audience on a journey.
excerpt from Dennis Wood's The Power of Maps
Guy Debourd Theory of the Derive
Visit a place in Alachua County that you have never been to. Create a map that makes us feel like we have been there before and one that makes the place strange or exotic. This map can be digital or a physical object or both.
Share Alachua county documentation with class.
Psychogeography examples -- How place affects the brain
"particpants to drift from their usual activities and to become more aware of their surroundings while simultaneously seeking out ways to change them" David Pinder
Discuss readings
Mind mapping if time
http://www.mindnode.com/
Critique of Separation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX3WgnlsX0Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgJZWCSvDSE&feature=related
Cool slide show that pretty much sums it up
http://www.slideshare.net/chippy/psychogeography-leeds
GPS Drawing
http://www.gpsdrawing.com/
My Parking Day
http://my.parkingday.org/
Iain Sinclair
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s8ItFs4Xbk
Paul Conneally
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Haiku.jpg
Will Self
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuSm3147rzg&feature=related
Making Psychogeography Maps
http://makingmaps.net/2009/06/22/making-psychogeography-maps/
Psychogeographic Guide of Paris
http://imaginarymuseum.org/LPG/Mapsitu1.htm
Toronto Psychogeographic Society
http://www.psychogeography.ca/
Richard Long
http://www.richardlong.org/
Confluence
http://confluence.org/
Ambient Addiction Noah Vawter
http://web.media.mit.edu/~nvawter/thesis/index.html
The Production of Space Henri Lefebvre first half of Chapter on Social Space pp. 69-109
"Do" a derive or a drift ala John Krygier example. Walk aimlessly about without a specific destination.
Take 7 pictures or sketch pictures and write a short text that describes how got from one place to the next. You can do this with another person in seminar if you would like. http://mappingweirdstuff.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/owjl-finalmap2.jpg
Discuss reading
Look at derives.
GPS Fun
Free Topo Maps to Download on GPS
http://gpstracklog.com/2009/09/free-gps-topo-maps.html
Sound Mapping Iain Mott
http://www.reverberant.com/sm/index.htm
You are Here Laura Kurgan Design
http://www.l00k.org/youarehere/you-are-here-museu
Trace Teri Rueb
http://www.terirueb.net/trace/index.html
Water Stefan Schemat
http://www.kunstverein-cuxhaven.de/ohne_schnur/englisch/unterseiten/schemat.htm
34N 118W Jeff Knowlton, Naomi Spelman, Jeremey Hight
http://34n118w.net/34N/
Remote Location Paula Poole and Brett Stalbaum
http://www.paintersflat.net/remotelocation.html
Cab Spotting Eric Rodenbeck
http://cabspotting.org/
Guttersnipe Elisa Giaccardi
http://www.bris.ac.uk/parip/guttersnipe.htm
Walking Project Erika Block and Hilary Ramsden
http://walksquawk.blogs.com/
Shoot Me If YOu Can Taeyoon Choi and I&P Media Art Team
http://www.shootmeifyoucan.net/
Local Treasures Margot Kelley
http://www.margotannekelley.com/?page_id=47
Biotracking Anna Dumitriu
http://web.mac.com/annadumitriu/BT/Home.html
Pioneers hitchhiking in the Valley of Heart's Delight
http://www.ylem.org/Hitchhikers/
The Aphrodite Project Norene Leddy and Andrew Milmoe
http://theaphroditeproject.tv/safety/
Transborder Immigrant Tool
http://post.thing.net/node/1642
Milk Project
http://www.milkproject.net/en/fla/main.html
Steven Vittiello Bells of New York http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8954000/8954065.stm
The Wilderness Downtown Chris Milk http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/
Love Maps of Paris http://www.suite101.com/content/la-carte-de-tendre-a-map-of-love-a77512
The Production of Space Henri Lefebvre second half of Chapter on Social Space pp. 110-169
Dowload Google Earth and bring computer
Marc Tuters interesting read on locative media (optional)
http://networkedpublics.org/locative_media/beyond_locative_media
discuss reading
Play with Google Earth
Memoria Historica de la ALameda
http://www.memorialameda.cl/
Babelcast Mosaic Gallery
http://www.flexatone.net/mosaic.html
Even more Giant Soviet Signs
http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2008/09/25/even-more-giant-soviet-signs/
Google Maps Mania
http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/
Institute for Applied Autonomy
http://www.appliedautonomy.com/isee.html
Global Safari--Wellington Cançado and Renata Marquez
http://blip.tv/file/3698794/
Ambient Addiction Noah Vawter
http://web.media.mit.edu/~nvawter/thesis/index.html
Footprint Mapping Noriyuki Fujimura
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/noriyuki/artworks/footprints/index.html
Space is the Place Sun Ra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djBKQNVj5Cc
Temporary travel Office
http://temporarytraveloffice.net/stories/tours.html
Impossible Geographies Petra Gemeinboeck
http://www.impossiblegeographies.net/
Locus Sonus Audio Streaming Map
http://nujus.net/~locusonus/site/streams/map.php
Finish GPS Activity
Please get with your partner and finish up the GPS activity.
Mind mapping Lefebvre activity
The second half of social space is a little dense and has a lot of examples and ideas from architecture/built environment. Part of getting through this section, I think, might be finding some key terms to hang on to, wade through the examples and tangents and see what is left in terms of a frame. Then go back and find what is relevant to the frame or skeleton, and then"decorate" as you see fit or meaningful the framework with some of Lefebvre's examples.
When I thought about the reading this way. I started to think of mind maps and the tension between these sort of maps as organizational tools, but also their potential for chaos.
Please pick one of the sections or grouping of shorter sections below and work in a group of your choosing. It can be the same people you worked with last week or you can reconfigure. Try and create a mind map using the following software
http://www.mindnode.com/
I tried this one; it is free and pretty easy to figure out. I believe that in the process of a small group of you creating the mind map that you will end up discussing what is important to these sections.
This experiment is not meant for you to use a particular piece of software, but to think about interpreting abstract knowledge using a map. If you have another technique or software for mind mapping, that you prefer go ahead and use it.
Section 13 or
Section 11 or
Section 8 or
Sections 7, 9, 10, 12 or
Sections 14, 15
GPS device, transferring waypoints and Google Earth
Please do not try and download your waypoints onto a computer until I update the firmware on the GPS devices. I am thinking that that may be the problem that some of you had when trying to interface the device to a computer. We will come back to this next class.
For next class in addition to the Decerteau reading (which should be much less strenuous after the Lefebvre), please download Google Earth to your computer and attempt to document one of your habitual paths. I am making the assumption that you know a little of Google Earth. If you do not here are some links to get you started.
http://earth.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=guide_toc.cs
Michel deCerteau's "Walking the City" in Practice of Everyday Life
Make a Google earth maps of a habitual path or something of your own notion.
Discuss reading in a scopic place.
Share Google Earth maps
http://data.labins.org/2003/
http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=3825#Instruct
http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/tutorials/how-to-change-which-map-is-displayed-on-a-garmin-gps/#gpsmap
http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/maps/view/123/
http://www.macgpspro.com/
http://www.ihikegps.com/
