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Subject: [Locative] Tracking Change: Contemporary Cartographies
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 08:31:22 +0200
From: Esther Polak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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*Tracking Change: Contemporary Cartographies*
The Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) is pleased to
announce the
*July discussion* on the *Synapse elist* which, throughout 2008, is
investigating the
leading-edge of art and science research collaboration.
In the closing years of last century, the assumed objectivity of
cartographic representation came under serious challenge, driven by
increasingly accessible mapping tools grounded upon revisionist
approaches to history, geography and culture. Artists - as is often the
case - became the ‘research and development’ arm of these new approaches
to mapping, charged with capturing and representing the exponentially
increasing banks of spatial, cultural and social data held about and
throughout our world.
Beginning on *1 July* the list will discuss *the changing landscape of
cartography *and survey the innovative work being produced at the
cross-roads of art, mapping, geography and the social body.
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*DISCUSSION GUESTS*
ALLARD VAN HOORN investigates the language of representation to
understand territory and its manifestations. He is the founder of the
Platform for Urban Investigation (PUI), a nomadic cross-disciplinary
research facility investigating local urban environments alongside
architects, designers, choreographers, theatre makers, musicians and
visual artists. The PUI collaborates with the Rijksakademie Amsterdam
and it’s RAIN Networks. _www.allardvanhoorn.com_
SIMEON NELSON established himself as an artist in Australia and Asia in
the 1990s, before moving to London in 2001. In 2007/08 he was the
first-ever Artist in Residence at the Royal Geographic Society, which
culminated in an exhibition of his work, /Cryptosphere/. He is currently
working on international commissions, collaborations and exhibitions and
holds the position of Reader in Sculpture at the University of
Hertfordshire, UK. www.simeon-nelson.com <http://www.simeon-nelson.com>
CHRISTIAN NOLD is an artist, designer and educator working to develop
new participatory models for communal representation. Since graduating
from the Royal College of Art in 2004 he has led many large-scale
participatory mapping projects, including /Bio Mapping/, which has been
staged in 16 different countries involving over 1500 people. He is
currently based at the Bartlett, University College London.
www.softhook.com <http://www.softhook.com>
ESTHER POLAK is interested in the visual and documentary possibilities
of Global Positioning Systems (GPS). Her /AmsterdamREALTIME/ project
(2002) was one of the first large-scale art explorations of GPS mapping,
whilst her 2005 project, /MILK/, won a Golden Nica at Ars Electronica.
Her current work, /NomadicMILK/, continues her broader goal of using GPS
not just for making comprehensible visualizations, but also for telling
human stories. www.estherpolak.nl <http://www.estherpolak.nl>
ÚRBANSITAN LABORATORY was founded in 2005 by Ásta Olga Magnúsdóttir and
Anna María Bogadóttir, a duo of urban adventurers exploring and
experimenting with the connections between people and the physical and
informational dimensions of the cities they inhabit. They live and work
in Cape Town and New York respectively (but are currently united in
their ultimate hometown of Reykjavik) and their work is presented
internationally. www.urbanistan.org <http://www.urbanistan.org>
JEREMY WOOD was born in San Francisco and raised in Berlin and Oxford,
before gaining his MA in Fine Art at Saint Martin's in London, where he
still lives. He has worked across the fields of drawing, sculpture, and
experimental photography. In 2000 he began using satellite navigation
technology and, for the past half-dozen years, has used GPS to track his
daily movements and create a personal
cartography.www.gpsdrawing.com/jw.html <http://www.gpsdrawing.com/jw.html>
*To subscribe to the elist visit: www.synapse.net.au
<http://www.synapse.net.au> and select ‘Discussion List’***
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ANAT is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia
Council for the Arts its arts funding and advisory body, by the South
Australian Government through Arts SA, and by the Visual Arts and Craft
Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.
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