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Subject: 	[Locative] Tracking Change: Contemporary Cartographies
Date: 	Wed, 2 Jul 2008 08:31:22 +0200
From: 	Esther Polak <epolak at dds.nl>
To: 	locative at 2008.x-i.net




*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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