PUBLIC MARKS with tags maps & art

The curtain slips a bit in the Camera in the Mirror, a new Tumblr project by the Spanish artist Mario Santamaría that collects accidental self-portraits of Google’s hulking cameras while they go about their work. It turns out that museums have a lot of mirrors, and the cameras often photograph themselves in front of them. +

Promenade Nocturne à Marseille.

Cartographic maps are to Ariane Littman the raw material, the content, and the inspiration of her artwork. The field, which she encounters as a freelance news photographer during the years 2005-2008, becomes the physical space where reality is processed and later projected into new imaginary spaces in her studio. There, she can alter the reality of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by removing borders and separation walls, boldly deconstructing the hegemonic power inscribed on the maps. Dwelling within competitive narratives Littman proposes, in her performance-video works, a critical reading of maps in which her body becomes the very site of an embodied cartography where geographic and artistic boundaries collapse. This movie reviews Ariane's inventive uses of maps as it follows her to the edge of the city of Jerusalem in her perambulatory routes triggered by the Second Intifada, in a quest to transcend borders and fear. At the end of her peregrinations in the conflicting spaces of Border Land, Ariane, longing for healing, projects herself into the new fictional spaces of Wounded Land. There in a Sisyphean process, she bandages and sews with a green thread the collective wound that runs through the geographic and human landscape of the Holy Land. Directed and Edited by Michal Shachnai Narrator: Rebecca Ehrenpreis Produced by Studio 11 Cinematography Omri Lior, Yair Tsriker and Michal Shachnai Original Music by Amir Yaakobi, Gerhard Fankhauser, Einat Gilboa & Yoham Project Sound design by Amir Yaakobi Cover designed by Yael Bogen Cover image by Oded Antmann Photos of news events & art works by Ariane Littman Photos of art works by Oded Antmann, Andrew Roth, Mike Ganor & Brian Hendler DVD video Widescreen: 16:9 29:16 minutes, color Language: English and Hebrew Subtitles: English and Hebrew All rights reserved: Ariane Littman 2012 www.ariane-littman.com

Malkit Shoshan is an Israeli architect. She is the founder and director of the Amsterdam based architectural think tank FAST whose research explores the relations between architecture, planning, politics and activism in Israel/Palestine, Georgia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, and the Netherlands.

Axis Maps is pleased to announce the release of our mapping / art project Typographic Maps. Created as a labor of love, these unique maps accurately depict the streets and highways, parks, neighborhoods, coastlines, and physical features of the city using nothing but type. Only by manually weaving together thousands upon thousands of carefully placed words does the full picture of the city emerge. Every single piece of type was manually placed, a process that took hundreds of hours to complete for each map. Take a look at our blog for more on how these maps were made.

Honk Kong en pixel art / google maps.

video conference room