..on or around Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:31:56AM +1100, Sean Cubitt said: > I passed this on to my colleagues on a course we're running on > globalisation. One of them responded with this link > http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/ > > Some marvellous discoveries
there are some beauties in there alright.. bookmarked. cheers! -- julian oliver http://julianoliver.com http://selectparks.net messages containing HTML will not be read. > > > On 15/3/08 4:10 AM, "Julian Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > hi list, > > > > i've just published a video of my one hour Inclusiva-Net '08 keynote > > 'Cartofictions', with a paper of the same name to follow. > > > > here's the abstract: > > > > From the earliest world maps to Google Earth, cartography has been a > > vital interface to the world. It guides our perceptions of what the > > world is and steers our actions in it. As our knowledge about the > > world has changed, so have maps with it (or so we like to think). > > > > In this lecture Julian shows a darker side of map-making, covering > > various reality-distorting effects innate to the graphic language of > > cartography and how they can be easily exploited for gain.. > > > > In doing so Julian positions cartography as an abstract and > > influentual creative practice, rich with the power to engineer > > political views, religious ideas and even the material world itself. > > > > here's the video: > > > > http://vimeo.com/784263 > > > > here's some info about the conference: > > > > http://inclusiva-net.org/ > > > > ... and some more about the workshop at which i taught for two weeks > > alongside Lalya Gaye: > > > > http://www.inclusiva-net.es/ > > > > cheers! > > Prof Sean Cubitt > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Director, Media and Communications Program > Faculty of Arts > Room 127 John Medley East > The University of Melbourne > Parkville VIC 3010 > Australia > > Tel: + 61 3 8344 3667 > Fax:+ 61 3 8344 5494 > M: 0448 304 004 > Skype: seancubitt > http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/media-communications/ > http://homepage.mac.com/waikatoscreen/seanc/ > http://seancubitt.blogspot.com/ > http://del.icio.us/seancubitt > > Editor-in-Chief Leonardo Book Series > http://leonardo.info > _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
