Sensorial Map, Newham College & Christian Nold

The Newham Sensory Deprivation Map is the result of an intensive workshop with 36 art students from Newham Sixth Form College. The students were put into pairs, one of whom was blindfolded and given ear defenders so that they could not see or hear. The other student was given a Global Positioning System as well as pen and paper. To read more: http://www.softhook.com/sensory.htm . The artist and student collaboration is one of the many projects in East London created wihtin iniva's Creative Mapping Project. http://www.iniva.org/.

Taking Soundings, Yolande

Taking soundings of ones position relative to satellites orbiting the earth rather than relative to ones immediate environment, strikes me as a kind of blind guidance, which encourages feelings of security or insecurity (Yolande Harris) . Read more http://yolande.janvaneyck.nl/takingsoundings.htm

Tim Clinton, Architecture & Maps

Brass Chicken, 2006

Tim Clinton is a San Francisco based artist who incorporates aspects of architecture and imaginative engineering into his own brand of cartographic art. His work takes the viewer between, through and across expected meridians. (As per Swipple Gallery's information) http://www.swipple.com/exhibit.php?id=106

Ian Hundley : Quilt Maps

Bierbergen Oedelum Black2006 You can watch a video of Ian Hundley talking about his work on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyBH88oFlUU or visit his site:http://www.ianhundleystudio.com/quilts.php. He takes maps of real locations and transforms them into informative quilts.

Analgoue Art Map

Map Me mapped Adelaide social networks via 2d & 3d methods over two weeks in a gallery space. People were invited to add links on the map suing crafty materials. To read more visit the http://analogueartmap.blogspot.com/ site.

Matthew Cusick, Map Art & Car Travel

Mattew Cusick, beautiful master map works appropriating the theme of travel, roads, movement and maps. You can see more of his work at: http://www.lisadent.com/ArtistWorks/Matthew/MatthewShowcase.html

Scott St John / Tofu Art

Urban Map Quilt 2002
The artist works with maps to reconstruct other images such as quilts, 3d works, circles/dots and other figures. I can't explain it all, its better if you visit his site: http://www.tofuart.com/.

El Mapa di Mi Cuerpo, Tatiana Parcero

Cartographies, a series of photographs by artist Tatiana Parcero where she explores ideas of the body and cartography. To see more of her work please visit : http://www.zonezero.com/EXPOSICIONES/fotografos/tatiana/p1en.html or http://www.bernicesteinbaumgallery.com/artists/parcero/images.html

Shannon Rankin, Interdisciplinary Artist/Craftsperson

Shannon Rankin

In search of connections among geography, anatomy and botany, she combines the visual elements of maps, anatomical illustrations and natural forms to explore themes of travel, healing and time.

http://flickr.com/photos/selflesh/

Transpant, 2007

Kathy Prendergrast

Little Universe 2 2006 To view more examples of Kathy Prendergrast visit: http://www.kerlin.ie/artists/prenderg.html. Kathy has used many cartographic maps in her art. From making a map of the USA using only the names of places where lost is part of the name. She also has created body maps such as this: