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Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint) The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts : [2013]
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Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-320) and index
Summary, etc Here, Karen O'Rourke explores a series of walking/mapping projects by contemporary artists. Some chart 'emotional GPS'; some use GPS for creating 'datascapes' while others use their legs to do 'speculative mapping.' Many work with scientists, designers, and engineers. O'Rourke offers close readings of these works and situates them in relation to landmark works from the past half-century
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An exploration of walking and mapping as both form and content in art projects using old and new technologies, shoe leather and GPS.
From Guy Debord in the early 1950s to Richard Long, Janet Cardiff, and Esther Polak more recently, contemporary artists have returned again and again to the walking motif. Today, the convergence of global networks, online databases, and new tools for mobile mapping coincides with a resurgence of interest in walking as an art form. In Walking and Mapping , Karen O'Rourke explores a series of walking/mapping projects by contemporary artists. She offers close readings of these projects--many of which she was able to experience firsthand--and situates them in relation to landmark works from the past half-century. Together, they form a new entity, a dynamic whole greater than the sum of its parts. By alternating close study of selected projects with a broader view of their place in a bigger picture, Walking and Mapping itself maps a complex phenomenon.
Series Foreword p. xi Preface p. xiii Introduction p. xvii Pedestrians and Cartographers p. xvii Top-Down or Bottom-Up? p. xviii Choice of Artworks p. xix Structure of the Book p. xix Psychogeography: The Politics of Applied Pedestrianism p. 1 Drifting for an Hour in Orléans-La-Source p. 1 Psychogeography: A Toolbox for Reading p. 6 Playful Pedestrianism p. 12 From Poaching to Protest: Walking the Cutting Edge p. 14 Remaking the World? p. 25 A Form of Perception or a Form of Art? p. 27 Walking and Falling p. 27 The ABCs of Movement p. 28 A Walk as an Experience p. 33 Artist's Experience and Viewer's Experience p. 38 The Art of Walking p. 43 A Map, No Directions p. 47 Walking Protocols p. 47 Shaped Walks p. 48 Executing a Figure in the Landscape p. 49 On the Beaten Path p. 51 Due East: Walking the Compass p. 56 The Walk and the Artifact p. 57 Contemporary Travelogues p. 60 So Near, So Far p. 68 Closing the Circuit: A Walk as a Gestalt p. 71 Directions but No Map p. 73 Instructions and Scores p. 73 When the Precursors Are Followers p. 79 Bottom-Up Walking p. 81 "If-Then" Procedural Walking p. 81 Negotiated Walking p. 87 Street Games: Teleguided Theater p. 91 Delving into the Black Box p. 98 When Walking Becomes Mapping: Labyrinths, Songlines p. 101 Cognitive Mapping p. 101 No Playing in the Labyrinth p. 103 Corridors: Itineraries of Oppression p. 105 Lost in the Funhouse: Mirror and Media Mazes p. 107 Labyrinths and Maps p. 110 Wayfinding as Learning as Remembering p. 112 Mapping Edges and Boundaries p. 113 Tracking and Pathfinding p. 117 Making One's Way: An Aesthetics of Cognitive Mapping p. 122 Lines Made by Walking p. 123 Urban Trails p. 123 Drawing Lines with Locative Media p. 124 Early Work with Mobile Technologies p. 125 Playing the City: Riffs on Real Time p. 130 Drawing by Walking p. 132 Annotating Space: Site-Specific Documentary p. 143 Hybrid Datascapes: Envisioning Space and Time p. 153 Drawing with Time and Space p. 154 Hybrid Datascapes p. 161 Shifting Perspective p. 168 Smooth Hybridization p. 172 Walking the Network p. 177 Database Cartography p. 177 Image Maps: Maps as Interfaces p. 177 Dynamic Maps p. 187 Participative Mapping p. 189 Maps in Which You Are the Cartographer p. 194 Mapping Performatively p. 197 Mapping as Context Creation p. 199 Linking the Maps p. 204 Mapping "Ways Through" p. 207 The Trouble with Linking the Maps p. 207 Surveillance, Control, (Mis)Trust p. 209 Regaining Agency: Shifting Lines of Force p. 230 Conclusion p. 245 The Art of Alter-Mapping: Context p. 245 A Map for Listening p. 246 Maps and Trajectories p. 247 Notes p. 249 Bibliography p. 305 Index p. 321