I passed this on to my colleagues on a course we're running on globalisation. One of them responded with this link http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/
Some marvellous discoveries S On 15/3/08 4:10 AM, "Julian Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi list, > > i've just published a video of my one hour Inclusiva-Net '08 keynote > 'Cartofictions', with a paper of the same name to follow. > > here's the abstract: > > From the earliest world maps to Google Earth, cartography has been a > vital interface to the world. It guides our perceptions of what the > world is and steers our actions in it. As our knowledge about the > world has changed, so have maps with it (or so we like to think). > > In this lecture Julian shows a darker side of map-making, covering > various reality-distorting effects innate to the graphic language of > cartography and how they can be easily exploited for gain.. > > In doing so Julian positions cartography as an abstract and > influentual creative practice, rich with the power to engineer > political views, religious ideas and even the material world itself. > > here's the video: > > http://vimeo.com/784263 > > here's some info about the conference: > > http://inclusiva-net.org/ > > ... and some more about the workshop at which i taught for two weeks > alongside Lalya Gaye: > > http://www.inclusiva-net.es/ > > cheers! Prof Sean Cubitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Director, Media and Communications Program Faculty of Arts Room 127 John Medley East The University of Melbourne Parkville VIC 3010 Australia Tel: + 61 3 8344 3667 Fax:+ 61 3 8344 5494 M: 0448 304 004 Skype: seancubitt http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/media-communications/ http://homepage.mac.com/waikatoscreen/seanc/ http://seancubitt.blogspot.com/ http://del.icio.us/seancubitt Editor-in-Chief Leonardo Book Series http://leonardo.info _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
