Hello,
If anyone's interested in the topic, I'm giving a brief lecture on
neogeography at California College of the Arts in San Francisco
tomorrow (Saturday, April 5) at 3pm. It's part of a larger symposium
on visual culture hosted by the graduate program in Visual & Critical
Studies.
More info and schedule here:
http://sites.cca.edu/currents/events/symposium.html
California College of the Arts Visual & Critical Studies Symposium
Saturday, April 5th
11:00 am - 4:00 pm (Reception to follow)
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco Campus
1111 Eighth Street, SF
Project overview here:
http://sites.cca.edu/gradthesisevents/visual_criticism/harrison_guinevere/1.html
NEOGEOGRAPHY: Mapping Our Place in the World
Guinevere Harrison
Digital mapping programs continue a cartographic legacy that has
existed for centuries. Embedded within this technology is the promise
of the god’s-eye view, the projection of our human desire to reduce
the complexity of life on the planet to manageable proportions. Yet
the ability to see more of the earth does not mean that we necessarily
know more about it. Spinning a virtual globe and gazing at satellite
images, we become disembodied consumers of the landscape. The planet
is reduced to digitized bits of information, a readymade spectacle for
our viewing pleasure. We fly over the earth at high altitudes,
thrilling in the illusion of control proffered by the view from above,
but it's easy to lose oneself in this untethered perspective. The
emptiness and abstraction of aerial photographs call for deeper levels
of local validation in order to read them. We must rely heavily on
context and experience to understand what these images reveal.
Neogeography counters the universalizing distance of satellite vision
and transforms the map into a medium for human interaction.
Thanks,
Guinevere
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