The Internet is information — your information, my information — everyone’s information. Remember the regrettable words emailed to your sister four years ago? They’re still in cyberspace, along with the resumé you posted on Monster.com, your mortgage applications, the searches you did on “prostate cancer,” the old Facebook photos, your tax returns, buying habits and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Mapping’
Information visualization: can you digg it?
Posted in Internet, Mapping, Multimedia, New Media, Popular Culture, surveillance, tagged data, digital art, information aesthetics, information visualization, Internet art, Mapping, search engines on May 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Radical Cartography
Posted in Books, Exhibition, Mapping, tagged art book, artists, geography, history, Mapping, maps, psychogeography on April 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Get Lost: Mapping Downtown New York
Posted in Mapping, tagged Manhattan, Mapping, maps, New Museum on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Check out a remarkable “collective portrait of downtown New York…. Get Lost brings together fictional landscapes, Utopian visions, private memories and obsessive instructions to explore Manhattan, its past, present, and future.” A project of the newly-housed and reopened New Museum, the maps were created by 21 artists from around the world.
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