PUBLIC MARKS with tags cartographie & art

Soft-Maps are quilted maps of cities and neighborhoods that represent someone's unique place in the world, and are tactile keepsakes meant to last generations. Wrap your children in them, have a picnic, pull them close during the next Nor'easter. 

Yes, the quilts are beautiful and intriguing enough to hang on a wall but the intention is for them to be touched and used.

An ongoing project for artists and participants to collaboratively explore mapping and ideas about identity, place and power.

Digital collage / Paper Manipulation

Porto/Berlin, Portugal/Germany, 20010

My vending machine allows you the ability to participate by owning a memento of a place that is unknowable.

Reconstitution temporelle et spatiale.

Time and space reconstitution.

We’ll be most interested in sites where the human and the geologic intersect–where humans today meet Lake Bonneville of the Pleistocene. At such sites, what is no longer becomes what is today.

We plan to pause to take in how humans have built and designed, perhaps unknowingly, a world upon and across the floor of ancient Lake Bonneville. We wonder what this vast body of water, a lake that was designated “extinct” around 14,000 years ago, continues to make possible for human life in 2010.

Vicente reinterprets the city of San Francisco as a grid for drawing pixel art using his bike, a map, and a GPS device.

This Timeline of 20th c. Art and New Media was created to include relationships between art, new media art, science, technology, war and media theory.

Cartographic conjecture, emergent systems and experimental musical notation all coalescent in the space planes of Emma McNally’s drawings.

A collection of accidents that happened while working on maps and other graphics. Click on the thumbnails to see larger images.

Let’s take a look at some of the other art maps that one can find around Tokyo.

Stavrohori (Σταυροχώρι). A place that I had driven through many times but had never stopped. Turned out to be a great place, full of empty buildings.

I perceive the city's patterns as living creatures that I recompose to form an urban image.

blog dedicated to the creative use of maps in art or how to map information creatively. All in all we are dedicated to showing map art.