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Category Archives: Maps and Mapping
Remotely Sensing Cape Farewell
I recently gave a presentation at the RGS-IBG annual conference where I creatively presented a series of 35mm slides from my dad’s 1972 mountaineering expedition to Cape Farewell, Greenland. I gave the presentation in a session entitled “Me, my self … Continue reading
Posted in art in place and the place of art, Cultural Cartography, Cultural Geography, Curation as Spatial Practice, Curatorial Concerns, Exhibitions, Experimental Geographies, Experimental Historiography, Geographer-artists, Maps and Mapping, Sound Art, Spatial Theory
Tagged archival practice, Art and Climate Change, Cape Farewell, critical historiography, Derek McCormack, Greenland, Ideas of North, Jim Patchett, loss, love, mountaineering, Nigel Thrift, non-representational and performative art practices, Non-Representational Theory, Royal Geographical Society
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Understanding the Creative City Through New Digital Mapping Technologies
Human geographer Dr. Chris Brennan-Horley is visiting Edmonton next week and is giving a presentation at the City-Region Study Centre entitled: Where is creativity in the city? Understanding the creative city through new digital mapping technologies Chris Brennan-Horley asks us to … Continue reading
Posted in art in place and the place of art, Creativity in the City, Cultural Geography, Experimental Geographies, Geographer-artists, Maps and Mapping, Spatial Encounters, Spatial Theory
Tagged City-Regions Study Centre, Creativity in the city, Dr Chris Brennan-Horley, GIS technology, mundanity, new digital mapping technologies, suburbs, Telus Centre, University of Alberta
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Be your own cartographer
OpenStreetMap is an ebook by Jonathan Bennett that teaches you how to become your own cartographer. The book and its accompanying technology allow you to to create your own custom maps or ‘GPS Traces’. A GPS trace or tracklog is simply … Continue reading
Rescue Geographies: Exploring Understandings of Space and Place with Mobile Technologies
Rescue Geography is a project that sets out to explore understandings of space and place with mobile technologies. Led by academic geographers Phil Jones (University of Birmingham) and James Evans (University of Manchester) Rescue Geography is a non-commercial body interested in trying out … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity in the City, Cultural Cartography, Cultural Geography, Curation as Spatial Practice, Experimental Geographies, Maps and Mapping
Tagged Cycling, Dan Burwood, Eastside, exhibition, experimental mapping, GPS tracking, James Evans, local environment, mobile technologies, Phil Jones, place, Rescue Geography, social research, space
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Experimental Geography tours Canada
Experimental Geography (curated by Nato Thompson) will be touring Canada over the next couple of months. It is already showing at the Museum London, London, Ontario (October 9, 2010 – January 2, 2011) and will then move to Freeman Art Gallery, Bishop’s University Sherbrooke, … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Geography, Curation as Spatial Practice, Experimental Geographies, Mapping Sound and Sounding Maps, Maps and Mapping, Spatial Theory
Tagged Centre for Land Use Interpretation, Centre for Urban Pedagogy, Experimental Geographies, kanarinka (Catherine D’Ignazio), Nato Thompson, Trevor Paglen
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MAP: Movement Art Public/Make Art Public
I have recently been introduced to MAP: Movement Art Public/Make Art Public. Founded in January 2006, in Montreal Quebec, MAP is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of art and culture in everyday life. MAP applies an innovative strategy … Continue reading
Geo-Imaginaries: Topology vs Topography
New topological geo-imaginaries have to some extent supplanted landscape as a medium for theorising space and nature-culture realtions. Such accounts of space aim to challenge the static conceptions of space, measurement, distance, surface, and perspective developed by traditional landscape studies. … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Geography, Maps and Mapping, Spatial Theory
Tagged geo-imaginaries, topography, topology
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Elastic City: Reshaping New York through Walks
Thanks to Barbara for introducing me to Elastic City, an artist run company that commissions a series of artist-led sensory city tours in NY. Elastic City is produced and directed by Todd Shalom and “intends to make its audience active … Continue reading
Sounding Underground
I am currently doing research on creative and radical mapping projects for a workshop I am planning to hold in Edmonton: “Off the Grid: Exploring Creative Cartographies”. The workshop will have a session on the theme of “Mapping Sound and Sounding … Continue reading
Cultural Cartography
Hello my name is Merle Patchett and I am a cultural geographer, writer and freelance curator. The main image for this blog is a recreation of Richard Long’s A Line Made by Walking (1967). The original photograph was … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural Cartography, Maps and Mapping
Tagged A Line Made By Walking, cultural cartography, Deconstructing the map, Katherine Harmon, Landon Mackenzie, Map as Art, mapping, merle patchett, non-representational and performative art practices, Richard Long, Tracking Athabasca
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