Art of the Map: Connecting us to our World
- 1. THE ART OF MAPPING Connecting Us to our World
- 2. Hello.
- 3. Kerry Smith: How to be an Explorer
- 4. Maps are sense-making machines They are the graphic representation of places and experiences real, imagined, or ignored. Maps tell visual stories revealing patterns and meanings. There is beauty in the order of information.
- 5. Artist self:
- 6. Thickless Making Room at 224 Wallace, Toronto
- 7. Map of Venice-Colour Memory Map of Venice Italy using colors from memory of places and
- 8. Map from Memory Sycamore, Deleon White Gallery Toronto
- 9. Installations Simone Interiors, Toronto Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
- 11. Educator self:
- 12. Artist Educator Workshops Withrow Jr. Public School, Toronto, Canada Karen Kain School of the Arts, Toronto, Canada Whitechapel Gallery, London UK Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC and PS102Q, PS 157, PS 243 Wave Hill, Bronx, NY DIA Chelsea, NYC and School of the Physical City United Nations School NYC
- 13. Janet Cohen/DIA Chelsea School for the Physical City, NYC, grades 9-12
- 14. Mapping the Bronx PS157/Grade 5/ Bronx, NY, Whitney Museum
- 15. Mapping Withrow Mapping Project, Withrow School, Grade 5
- 16. Mapping Withrow 3-D Mapping Project, Withrow School Grade 5
- 17. Mapping Etobicoke Karen Kain School of the Arts/Art on the Move/Autoshare/Toronto
- 18. Why Mapping? Deleuze and Guattari In 1987, French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari: „The map is open and connectable in all of its dimensions; it is detachable, reversible, susceptible to constant modification. It can be torn, reversed, adapted to any kind of mounting, reworked by an individual, group, or social formation. It can be drawn on a wall, conceived of as a work of art, constructed as a political action or as a meditation‟
- 19. Goals of project: Gain an understanding of maps and mapping conventions Learn about the different kinds of maps that we use and the kinds of information they communicate Learn about what mapping teaches us about our community, environment, and ourselves Learn about how artists use maps in their work or, as inspiration for their work Create a descriptive map that is also a work of art, visually compelling, interesting
- 20. Some ideas for maps: People Mapping: Create a color-coded map of the position of other people in relation to you on your route. Paint chip map: Create a map using paint chips to represent the colors on your map Found Paint Map: Create a map using as many things as you can to make pigment adding water if necessary such as crushed berries, flowers, dirt, spices. Mark the location where you found each item on your map. -Invisible City: Create a map of your day that is fantasy or altered from reality in some or all ways. 3-D Map: Create a 3-D Map of your walk using recycled materials Traditional Map: make a map of your day measuring distances, building a key, highlighting and naming streets Favorite place map: Make a map of your favorite places in the neighborhood. Micromap- Create a very small map of the smallest things on your way to school Freestyle Map: Make up your own method for creating a map. Include methodology and key to map with or on your map. Word map or concrete poem: Make a map using words to represent places or your feelings about those places.
- 22. When did you last use a map? What did you use it for? What do maps tell us? Maps-Art or Science? Conversation Starters
- 23. Warm ups Map inspired Name Tag (5-10 minutes) Word Map (5-10 minutes) Close your eyes and think of the word "map". Write down all of the words that come to mind.
- 24. Can maps be art? Why do we make maps? What kind of information can they communicate? How do they communicate information? What tools do cartographers use?
- 25. What are maps?
- 26. Map, Origins of People in Ontario and Western Quebec
- 27. Legend of Ethic Map of Ontario and Western Quebec
- 28. How Toronto gets around:
- 29. Google Earth
- 31. John Fulford, The Walk to South School 1968-71
- 32. Visualization of Inuit Geneology
- 33. “We are the original owners of this country. Our land was stolen from us by the Euro- American invaders . . . I can‟t say strongly enough that my maps are about stolen lands, our very heritage, our cultures, our worldview, our being . . . Every map is a political map and tells a story---that we are alive everywhere across this nation . . .” Smith, Postmodern Messenger, Exhibition Catalogue, 2004
- 34. Places I have not been (North America) by Evan Drolet Cook
- 35. Map of My Day, Sarah Fanelli
- 36. Al-Idrisi
- 37. Cut maps by Chris Kenny
- 38. L.A.S.F.#1, 2003 by Ed Ruscha
- 39. Kate McLean: Sensory Maps
- 40. xxxv places the birds gather in the second week of february
- 41. Map quilt unidentified artist possibly Virginia 1880‟s
- 42. Alighiero e Boetti Mappa
- 43. Tactile Maps by Emily Fischer
- 44. Imaginary Cities Codes - Imaginary maps of nonexistent cities by federico cortese
- 46. Lego Prints to build a city
- 47. 3D Paper Ideas
- 48. Fill in the Maps
- 49. Epic Maps
- 50. Nature Scavenger Hunt and Mapping
- 51. PLAY THE WALK If cities are made up of paths, blocks, trees and tunnels, then buildings are its flesh and their materiality form the millions of square feet of its skin. Our skin is the largest of our organs, bearing the responsibility of holding our body together as well as letting things in and out. So do building‟s envelops, so go ahead and „feel‟ your city.
- 52. PLAY THE WALK: PLAYADAY When walking down the street stretch your arm, open the palm of your hand and extend the tip of you fingers and feel the boundaries of your city: the walls, fences, glass barriers and hedges.
- 53. PLAY THE WALK: PLAYADAY
- 54. Resources
- 55. web: www.lunule.com etsy: etsy.com/shop/lunule twitter: @lunule tumblr: lunuleblog.tumblr.com joinartclub.tumblr.com tapeartmovement.tumblr.com blog : lunule.blogspot.com email : susan@lunule.com linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/susanroweharrison Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/lunule Get in touch.
Editor's Notes
- #7: ...From one part to the other, the city seems to continue, in perspective, multiplying its repertory of images: but instead it has not thickness, it consists only of a face and an obverse, like a sheet of paper, with a figure on either side, which can neither be separated nor look at each other. Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities Chapter 7: Cities and Eyes: 5 In this project, I am looking at mapping the physical residue of social systems--how we carve out spaces and what that shows us about how we live.
- #9: This drawing is a map of the first neighborhood that I remember as a child. The colors represent my visual memories of people, places, and things from that time.
- #14: Janet Cohen: I have been watching games and trying to find the pivot point, where the lead irrevocably went from one team to the other. That is the moment I’m trying to capture.Cohen asked them to create drawings in their journals which charted dynamic systems in their lives and communities. The workshop did not seek to build traditional skills in representational drawing, but rather aimed to develop an understanding of charting and diagramming in math through art. Students charted a basketball game, a karate class, the skate park, and their mother at a laundromat (launderette). One student even charted the sounds in his living roomUnrestricted by purely skills-based knowledge, the teaching artist worked to unravel some of the students’ rigid ideas about art and, as a result, she helped to sharpen their analytical abilities.As Janet remarked in an email conversation we had after the workshop: ‘...it’s important to introduce kids to as much off the beaten track/non-mainstream works as possible before they get stuck into categorizing what they see/experience.’ 21
- #15: Jacob Lawrence neighborhood unit at PS157 in the Bronx.
- #19: 32 Deleuze, G. and Guattari, F. (1987). A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, p. 12, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN.
- #20: These have been some of my project goals but you may also have great ideas to share…
- #27: The Atlas of Canada, 1901, National Resources of Canada
- #31: “Eric Fischer did exactly that when he used Twitter’s API to collect tens of thousands of geotagged tweets and map them onto the streets of New York, Chicago, and the San Francisco Bay area. The maps amount to something close to a desire path on a macro scale: The maps show where our buses and subways should be, if they conformed to the way we actually move and live.”via FastDesignCo.
- #32: John Fulford drew this map of his childhood walk to school for his nieces and his nieces marked in pink x’s and circles what had changed-the x’s marked places that no longer exist and the circles, places that had changed.
- #33: A visualization of Inuit genealogy by French anthropologist, geographer, physicist, and writer Jean Malaurie
- #37: Muslim cartographerAl-Idrisi, Summary overview map from his world atlas. (South is at the top of the map), 1154
- #40: Interpretation of a smellwalk. Manchester, April 2012Inspired by a scientific paper from Richard Axel's lab and my previous experiments of smell as watercolour I decided to use the data from Scent of Departure to form visuals of city smells, to see the smell-colours of idealised and romanticised wealthy urban spaces. I mapped the intensity of the colours based on the frequencies of each fragrance..
- #41: Nigel Peake
- #43: Each country features its map design. In 1971, Boetti commissioned women at an embroidery school in Kabul to embroider his first map. He initially intended to make only one but went on to commission roughly 150 of them in his lifetime.Boetti’s maps reflect a changing geopolitical world from 1971 to 1994, a period that included the collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Embroidered by up to 500 artisans in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the maps were the result of a collaborative process leaving the design to the geopolitical realities of the time, and the choice of colours to the artisans responsible for the embroidery. The maps delineate the political boundaries of the countries; some nations, such as Israel, are not represented because the Taliban regime of Afghanistan did not then recognize their existence.[29] When embroiderers ran short of a particular colour they substituted another in its place.
- #44: Tactile Maps by Emily Fischer who researches digital information such as open source mapping to find a density of data that conforms to "Amish rules of quilting". Each resultant quilt is a tactile map.The City Quilts collection is "the product of years of research: a synthesis of complex digital information (GIS and open source mapping like OpenStreetMap.org) and painstaking craft technique."
- #45: Codes - Imaginary maps of nonexistent cities by federicocortese
- #46: a gorgeous Kerr | Noble representation of the River Thames through graphic design and the words of the John Banck’s 1738 poem on London.
- #47: Gerhard Richter, Townscape Paris, 1970
- #48: Milk cartons, folded book pages, origami houses
- #49: Students can add thoughts, places, and landscape elements that define their province or city
- #50: Roll of Kraft Paper and Markers + small cars and other details
- #53: PLAYTHEWALK.TUMBLR.COM
- #55: Katherine Harmon You are Here and the Map as Art