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Course Description
Over twenty years ago, Frederick Jameson
advocated for a process of cognitive, political, and historical mapping
to enable people to understand and traverse the complex and disorienting
physical and conceptual landscapes of postmodernity. Since
then, the process of mapping and the visual language of maps have emerged
as strong elements in a good deal of contemporary media art. Cultural
geographers, who for a generation have interrogated the ways that acts
of mapping and the maps they produce are embedded and productive of power
relations, have begun recently to take notice of the unconventional mapping
projects produced by artists working with emerging cartographic tools,
using locative media technologies, and remixing the images produced by
global surveillance. This course will focus on developing an understanding
of and practical experience with new media and artistic mapping practices
with special attention given to context and meaning. |
Course Objectives
- Understand, appreciate, and critique new media artworks and practices related to issues of mapping.
- Critically engage with scholarly debates relating to mapping and spatial practices.
- Explore mapping methods and mobile media as a form of artistic production
- Develop collaborative skills, critical thinking, and visual literacy.
- Identify research and technology resources for the artistic production of maps
- Develop a working knowledge of Flash as an authoring tool.
- Become familiar with a range of other mapping and spatial tools, such as GIS, GPS, Google Earth, Platial, Wayfaring, etc.
- Present a selection of our work to the public at an end-of-semester show.
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MCMA 516, Fall 2006 / Thursdays, 2-4:50 PM, COMM 9E / Recommended
Lab: Thursday, 6-8 PM, COMM 9E
Prof. Sarah Kanouse / Office: Comm 1121K / Tues 1-3 PM; Wed 3-5 PM; Thu 8:30-9:30 AM, 1-2 PM / kanouse@siu.edu |
