From the first known map of the trading world (inscribed on a Babylonian clay tablet in 600 BC) to Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Idrisi’s 1154 world map, to National Geographic’s rendering of the earth’s ocean floor, cartographic representations have helped us imagine and navigate trade routes, political states, scientific discoveries and geographic territories. Published maps [...]
Posts Tagged ‘history’
Radical Cartography
Posted in Books, Exhibition, Mapping, tagged art book, artists, geography, history, Mapping, maps, psychogeography on April 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
La Frontera
Posted in Mapping, tagged Absolut Vodka ad, commerce, history, Mexican border, treaty on April 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »
absolut b.s.
Last chance to see…
Posted in Exhibition, Installation, tagged biennial, containment, history, immigrants, immigration, London, memory, race, segregation, separation, Tate Museum on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
…the Columbian artist Doris Salcedo’s “Shibboleth,” at the Tate Museum, London, through April 5th. It’s a 548-foot installation piece that divides the floor of the Tate’s Turbine Hall. According to the artist it, “represents borders, the experience of immigrants, the experience of segregation, the experience of racial hatred.” Can the viewer make all of these [...]
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