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Walking and mapping: artists as cartographers
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Publisher
The MIT Press
Publication Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Table of Contents
From the Book
Series Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Pedestrians and Cartographers
Top-Down or Bottom-Up?
Choice of Artworks
Structure of the Book
1. Psychogeography: The Politics of Applied Pedestrianism
Drifting for an Hour in Orléans-La-Source
Psychogeography: A Toolbox for Reading
Playful Pedestrianism
From Poaching to Protest: Walking the Cutting Edge
Remaking the World?
2. A Form of Perception or a Form of Art?
Walking and Falling
The ABCs of Movement
A Walk as an Experience
Artist's Experience and Viewer's Experience
The Art of Walking
3. A Map, No Directions
Walking Protocols
Shaped Walks
Executing a Figure in the Landscape
On the Beaten Path
Due East: Walking the Compass
The Walk and the Artifact
Contemporary Travelogues
So Near, So Far
Closing the Circuit: A Walk as a Gestalt
4. Directions but No Map
Instructions and Scores
When the Precursors Are Followers
Bottom-Up Walking
"If-Then" Procedural Walking
Negotiated Walking
Street Games: Teleguided Theater
Delving into the Black Box
5. When Walking Becomes Mapping: Labyrinths, Songlines
Cognitive Mapping
No Playing in the Labyrinth
Corridors: Itineraries of Oppression
Lost in the Funhouse: Mirror and Media Mazes
Labyrinths and Maps
Wayfinding as Learning as Remembering
Mapping Edges and Boundaries
Tracking and Pathfinding
Making One's Way: An Aesthetics of Cognitive Mapping
6. Lines Made by Walking
Urban Trails
Drawing Lines with Locative Media
Early Work with Mobile Technologies
Playing the City: Riffs on Real Time
Drawing by Walking
Annotating Space: Site-Specific Documentary
7. Hybrid Datascapes: Envisioning Space and Time
Drawing with Time and Space
Hybrid Datascapes
Shifting Perspective
Smooth Hybridization
8. Walking the Network
Database Cartography
Image Maps: Maps as Interfaces
Dynamic Maps
Participative Mapping
Maps in Which You Are the Cartographer
Mapping Performatively
Mapping as Context Creation
Linking the Maps
9. Mapping "Ways Through"
The Trouble with Linking the Maps
Surveillance, Control, (Mis)Trust
Regaining Agency: Shifting Lines of Force
Conclusion
The Art of Alter-Mapping: Context
A Map for Listening
Maps and Trajectories
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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9780262018500
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