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 [...]
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Radical Cartography
Posted in Books, Exhibition, Mapping, tagged art book, artists, geography, history, Mapping, maps, psychogeography on April 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
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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