Maps drawn by Indigenous artists at the behest of the Spanish in the 16th century illustrate the amalgamation of visual traditions during the early years of contact between Indigenous groups and colonizers.
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Mapping Boundaries and Free Space in Brazil
A series of maps elucidates both literal and metaphorical walls that limit equality and freedom in Brazilian society and Latin America at large.
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A Performer Uses Brain-Mapping Technology to Scan Her Dreams
Indonesian artist Melati Suryodarmo ran her own dreams through an EEG machine to create her performances at the Asia Society Museum next week.
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Mapping Out Jeffery Epstein’s Connections and Links to the Art World
New revelations show the sex offender’s close ties to the New York Academy of Art, where he served as a board member, and M.I.T. Media Lab, to which he donated almost $1 million
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Digitally Mapping Cultural Heritage Sites in Italy, Brazil, and Turkey
The Getty Foundation has awarded $1 million in grants to support virtual preservation of cultural locations worldwide.
Posted inBooks
Mapping Chicago’s Concrete and Brutalist Buildings
For a new map published by Blue Crow Media, Chicago-based architect Iker Gil has selected over 50 examples of concrete and Brutalist buildings across the city and its suburbs to highlight.
Posted inArticles
Deep Mapping Miami’s Past, Present, and Future at Creative Time Summit
On a walk through one of Florida’s tropical hardwood hammocks, artists construct a multi-layered map of a vulnerable ecosystem.
Posted inHistory
Four Centuries of Mapping the Subterranean World
Boston Public Library’s Leventhal Map Center is exhibiting maps of volcanoes, catacombs, mines, subways, sewage systems, and other underground cartography.
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A Grassroots “Google Street View” Supports Community-Building Efforts in Detroit
A mobile mapping station being developed by a team in the Master’s Urban Planning department at Lawrence Technical University, wants to help residents of embattled neighborhoods.
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Minecraft Mapping One of Europe’s Last Primeval Forests
To the Last Tree Standing allows you to explore about 270 square miles of Poland’s Białowieża Forest, which has witnessed increased logging over the past year.
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Warren Wilson’s MA in Critical Craft Studies Releases Its First Publication
Each purchase of Mapping Craft: This is how we meet supports scholarships for BIPOC students enrolled in the low-residency program, which is currently accepting applications until March 1, 2021.
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Pratt Manhattan Gallery Presents You Are Here NYC: Art, Information, and Mapping
The exhibition is curated by Katharine Harmon, author of You Are Here–NYC: Mapping the Soul of the City, with Jessie Braden, Director, Spatial Analysis and Visualization Initiative, Pratt Institute.
