Mark Bradford...mapping the urban space

From an areial perspective Mark Bradford captures the view of urban cities using all types of paper (found in the city) to create large scale collages.





Kryptonite












The Flies








http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/bradford/index.html

We create maps to give meaning...Joao Machado

Joao Machado explores maps as a medium like paint, to create a figure a face, a nude...a couple.
See more of his work at www. joao-machado.com.













Nude, 2006









Alfie, 2008












African Dance, 2006

Peter Dykuis...maps, politics, and more

Peter Dykhuis integrated maps explore ideas engaging with politics, ethics, and questions ideas about war and human behaviour.

You are here (detail), 2005

State Dinner (detail), 2005

More work at www.dykhuis.ca

Daniel Medina...New Social Maps

Daniel Medina questions how we intrepret the geopolitical world of today and what this means in relation to the spaces where worlds, countries, nations intersect or collide.


Nuevos Mapas Sociales, 2009














7th Gwangju Biennale, 2008













Interrogatin Systems, 2008

Darlene Charneco, take a closer look

Inpsired by mapping tools and computer gaming design. Meeting points between real and virutal worlds. See more of her work: http://www.darlenecharneco.com/



Cheery Bloosom Woods, 2007

Virtual Migration, 2007

From Above

Mona Hatoum...a prolific map artist

Mona Hatoum over many years has produced map art to that engages with the politics of place and space.
Printed maps representing Beirut, Baghdad, and Kabul. The three-dimensional cut-outs articulate signs of destruction and rebuilding, 2008-2009

Afghan, 2008

Projection, 2008

Local Cartographies with artist Maria Kheirkhah

Adults from the Sundial Centre in Hackney worked with artist Maria Kheirkhah on the Local Cartographies project to map significant places and memories of their community.













Using a kilim (a traditional Turkish carpet) as a backdrop to map the area around Sundial Centre, the group collaboratively drew up a map. The kilim was used to reflect the narrative element of the map.

Envisioning Maps, a show from 2008 better late than never

Envisioning Maps was an exhibition at Hebrew Union College in 2008 that investigated the concept of mapping. The maps explore history, getting lost, declaring location, word maps. Per the press info 'the show explores the desire to know wehre one is in a world where we don't know where we are going'.















Venice Eruv, Ben Schacter, 2007

Budapest/Soweto, William Kentridge


















For more information: http://www.huc.edu/museums/ny/exhibits/08/maps/

Kathryn Rodrigues: A different view

From pictograms to mercator maps on wood, her work to personal explorations of maps.

Mercator Map, 2006, mixed media

Connection from the Cartobibliography series, 2004

Pronoid Mapping- the belief that the world is conspiring to help you

Artists Agnes Poientin-Navarre and Theresa Rahman worked with a artists to consider the concept of 'Pronoia' - the belief that the world is conspiring to help you. Through a series of workshops the group identified key words, symbols and pictograms that define their personal pronoid journeys.

http://www.iniva.org/learning/creative_mapping/year_3_off_the_map/pronoid_mapping