Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Abrams, Janet.
2. Hall, Peter, 1965-

Description

1. 320 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 25 cm

Summary

1. "This anthology brings together an international roster of writers, artists and designers at the forefront of locative media practice, and assembles archival and digital maps - from a 16th-Century woodcut to a specially commissioned GPS drawing along the Greenwich Meridian - to explore how cartographic techniques are being adapted to map the emerging environments of electronic communication."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

1. Geographic information systems
2. Digital mapping

Contents

1. Meridian drawing / Jeremy Wood -- Where/abouts / Janet Abrams and Peter Hall -- Mapping networks -- Counter cartographies / Brian Holmes -- Possible worlds / Dirk van Weelden -- Gazetteera : network maps -- The node knows / J. J. King -- Mapping social messes : David Pescovitz talks to Robert Horn -- Re-orientation / Ole Bouman -- Gazetteers B : network maps -- Network nations / Ben Schoulen and Yuri Engelhardt -- Mapping conversations -- Conversations as maps/part 1 : a virtual roundtable -- Gazetteer C : conversation maps -- Conversations as maps/part 2 : a virtual roundtable -- Gazetteer D : conversation maps -- Conversations with maps / Janet Abrams, Andree Moed and Alex Terzich -- Gazetteer E : conversation maps -- Holding patterns : Peter Hall talks to Paul Mijksenaar -- No mouse required / Janet Abrams -- Locus focus / Janet Abrams -- Gazetteer F : conversation maps -- Mapping territories -- Carto-city / Denis Cosgrove -- Gazetteer G : territory maps -- Signal failure / Paul Elliman -- Cerebral cities / Tom Vanderbilt -- Perils of precision / Rebecca Ross -- Gazetteer H : territory maps -- Mapping the homunculus / Steve Dietz -- Images/matter : Peter Hall talks to Mike Silver -- Map quest / Peter Walsh -- Contested terrain : Steven Zacks talks to Eyal Weizman -- World in motion & The other final / Cathy Lang Ho -- The sirens of Venice / Paul Elliman -- Mapping : mapping -- Epic vessels : Janet Abrams on Julie Mehretu -- Bark to bytes : Alice Twemlow on Natallo Jeremijenko -- Gazetteer I : mapping maps -- Geneography : Janet Abrams talks to Ben Fry -- Skywriting : Janet Abrams and Peter Hall talk to Jeremy Wood -- Can't be elsewhere when GPS drawing / Jeremy Wood -- Message in a bottle : Peter Hall talks to Layla Curtis -- Flight paths : Peter Hall on Terraswarm -- Gazetteer J : mapping maps -- Contours & colonies : Andrea Codrington on De Geuzen -- Monochrome landscapes / Laura Kurgan.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.