Mapping it out : an alternative atlas of contemporary cartographies / edited by Hans-Ulrich Obrist ; with an introduction by Tom McCarthy.
Contributor(s): Obrist, Hans-Ulrich.
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BookPublisher: London : Thames & Hudson, 2014Description: 239 pages. : illustrations, maps ; 21 x 28 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0500239185 (cloth); 9780500239186 (cloth).Other title: Alternative atlas of contemporary cartographies.Subject(s): Cartography
| Imaginary places -- Maps | Maps in artDDC classification: 526 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 526 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Checked out | 15/02/2024 | 00196108 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Over 130 of the world's most creative minds make sense of our exterior and interior worlds through intriguing and imaginative maps of their own devising. Imaginative, visionary and richly absorbing, this book will appeal to anyone interested in how we visualize our worlds, physical or abstract, real or imagined.
Whether they chart a newly discovered land or lay out a complicated process, maps serve to improve our understanding of what surrounds us. They make the complex simple, and reveal the complexity behind the apparently straightforward.
Original and thought-provoking, Mapping It Out invites leading lights from a host of fields to create a personal map of their own, in whatever form and showing whatever terrain they choose, whether real-world or imaginary.
Some contributors have translated scientific data into simplified visual language, while others have condensed vast social, political or natural forms into concise diagrams. Many have reworked existing maps to subvert their original purpose or to present an alternative view of reality. Others play with the map's commitment to truth by plotting invented worlds and charting imaginative flights of fancy. Going further, some offer entirely new kinds of map - or even reject the map's claim to bear facts altogether.
In his Introduction, acclaimed novelist Tom McCarthy reflects on the relationship between maps, literature and knowledge, while Hans Ulrich Obrist considers the influence of maps on artistic creativity.
Redrawn territories: Louise Bourgeois ; Jonas Mekas ; Richard Hamilton ; Pae White ; Étienne Chambaud ; Adam Chodzko ; Maurizio Cattelan ; Michael Craig-Martin ; Raqs Media Collective ; James Croak ; Marcus du Sautoy ; CurtisLeslie Anderson ; Benjamin D. Hennig ; Damien Hirst ; Artur Barrio ; Jorge Macchi ; Anri Sala ; Simone Forti ; Kai Krause ; Doug Aitken ; Rivane Neuenschwander ; Philip Hughes ; Mona Hatoum ; Christopher Stringer -- Charting human life: Joel Gold ; Liam Gillick ; Eduardo Salcedo-Albarán ; Tim Berners-Lee ; Emanuel Derman ; César Hidalgo ; Olafur Eliasson ; Andres Jaque ; Gilbert & George ; Tehching Hsieh ; Goldin+Senneby ; Yoko Ono ; Erling Kagge ; John Maeda ; Joan Chiao ; Bruce Sterling ; Akram Zaatari ; Brian Knutson ; Mark Pagel ; Tom Standage ; Nicholas Christakis & James Fowler ; Eric Rodenbeck ; Kevin Kelly ; Enzo Mari ; Hans-Peter Feldmann ; Kader Attia ; Alexander Kluge ; Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa ; Scott King ; Nicholas Humphrey ; Juan Enriquez & Rodrigo Martinez ; Aaron Koblin ; Fabian Marti ; MIT SENSEable City Lab ; Suzanne Lacy ; Claude Parent ; Jennifer Jacquet ; Douglas Rushkoff ; Carlo Ratti ; Andrea Zanzotto -- Scientia naturalis: W. Daniel Hillis ; George Church ; Tim & Mairead Robinson ; Armand Leroi ; Serian Sumner ; Dave McKean ; George F. Smoot ; Dimitar Sasselov ; Bruce Parker ; Newton & Helen Mayer Harrison ; Stuart Pimm ; Albert-László Barabási ; Timothy Taylor & Tom Frankland ; J. Craig Venter ; Yong-Yeol Ahn ; Alvy Ray Smith ; Gino Segre -- Invented worlds: John Baldessari ; Yona Friedman ; Margarita Gluzberg ; Simon Fujiwara ; Joseph Grigely ; Laurence C. Smith ; Sean Carroll ; Matthew Barney ; Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster ; Rosa Barba ; Casey Reas ; Mariana Castillo Deball & Amalia Pica ; Qiu Zhijie ; Joost Grootens ; David Adjaye ; Tomás Saraceno ; Fritz Haeg ; Francois Dallegret ; Etel Adnan ; Susan Hiller ; Wang Jianwei ; International Necronautical Society ; Ernesto Neto ; Julieta Aranda ; Sanaa -- The unmappable: Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla ; Céline Condorelli ; Augusto Di Stefano ; Jimmie Durham ; Fia Backström ; Monir Sharoudy Farmanfarmaian ; N.S. Harsha ; Toyo Ito ; Koo Jeong-A ; Anish Kapoor ; Annette Messager ; Nanos Valaoritis ; Matt Mullican ; Nancy Spero ; Hugo Suter ; Pamela Rosenkranz ; Philippe Parreno ; Nicolás Paris ; Ed Ruscha ; Carl Michael von Hausswolff ; Oraib Toukan ; Tris Vonna-Michell ; Jacques Roubaud ; Cerith Wyn Evans.
Maps have always been at the heart of human knowledge. Whether they chart a newly discovered land or lay out a complicated process, maps serve to improve our understanding of what surrounds us. Maps make the complex simple, and reveal the complexity behind the apparently simple. Mapping It Out invites artists, architects, writers, and designers, geographers, mathematicians, computer pioneers, scientists, and others from a host of fields to create a personal map of their own, in whatever form and showing whatever terrain they choose, whether real-world or imaginary. Over 130 contributors are represented, including Yoko Ono, Louise Bourgeois, Damien Hirst, David Adjaye, Ed Ruscha, Alexander Kluge, and many more. Some contributors have translated scientific data into simplified visual language, while others have condensed vast social, political, or natural forms into concise diagrams. There are reworked existing maps, alternate views of reality, charted imaginary flights of fancy, and the occasional rejection of a traditional map altogether.--Provided by publisher.