Maps and Journeys 5- 'Cultural Geography and Mapping' and 'GPS, Telepresence and Internet in Art' Presentations

These are the notes I made from Rosie's lecture.

'Cultural Geography and Mapping'- Yuwei Lin

. Maps are 'Political statements'- tools to demonstrate power and boundaries

. 'Geograph.org.uk'

. Maps can capture memories and emotions, representing these through paintings etc. Where you've been thats makes you feel certain emotions

. Geocaching- 'High-tech treasure hunt'- tracking an item across different locations

. Maps can be 'Social' and 'Interactive'- Group of people mapping locations (Amateur vs professional)

. 'Openstreetmap.org'- more detailed mapping, created and edited by 'Open street mappers'

. Mapping objects or subjects- Identity, the self.

. CCTV- looking at locations and looking at the self

. Humanitarian mapping- Countries that have lost accurate mapping (natural disasters)

GPS, Telepresence and Internet in Art

. Surveillance- knowing where someone is on the earth

Ian Mott- 

Sound Mapping 1998- Talking about the technology

How music connect people to a certain place- using radio signals and microphones to pick up sound

Technology progressing improving mapping- changing in size to handheld (mobile phones)

Rabeca

Archive of instrument playing (the rubeca) and where its played across the world

'Chinese Whispers' 

. A booth telling stories to the public- phone playing pre-recorded messages

. Internet being used for people to come together and share stories

Masaki Fujihata- 

Voice of Aliveness

. Collection of voices/shouts, 'Meta monument' built of collective memory

. Bike riding a specific path and GPS/Camera work is recorded and transformed into a certain shape

Teri Bueb- 

Trace

. Environmental sound piece through headphones.

. Using sound to visualise and map the location

.Recordings of memorials- Death, Loss and transformation.

. Can be stories, music, compositions.

Drift

. Wandering the coastline, discovering interactive sound through movement.

Telepresence and Streaming

Paul Sermon- 

. Using interactive video and green screen technology.

Telegarden

. Using the internet and a garden, that brings people together and allows people to grow plants

Aram Bartholl

Coding- turning code into art