Tag Archives: cartography

Festival Cultura Digital – Rio de Janeiro Brazil

Fei An Tjan | 15 December 2011, 3:01 pm | tags: , , , , ,

A short summary of our experiences as map:m()b at the Cultura Digital Festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Festival Cultura Digital is an International encounter where different people, projects and groups present themselves in order to strengthen an international network of people working in the field. Three days full of experiences exchanges, workshops and keynote speakers all treating the workings of the web, independent media, hacking and so much more.

Representing complexity: data visualization & Fredric Jameson’s notion of cognitive mapping

Daniel de Zeeuw | 06 October 2011, 7:00 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

“There is nothing the beautiful world finds as intolerable as explanations. I, too, find it terrible when somebody begins to explain, for when worst comes to worst I understand everything myself.” (Hegel, 1808)

In this post I want to try and point towards a possible alternative to the research methods of ‘data visualization,’ increasingly conceived as being the…

Using 3D to ’spicen up’ geographic datavisualization

Emina Sendijarevic | 06 May 2011, 8:27 am | tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

In the last 30 years advances in computer science and computer graphics have largely contributed to making maps interactive and dynamic. Interactive, computerized maps have the advantage of enabling the user to interact with the display, but are also able to express additional information for the user’s interest (Andrienko & Andrienko, 1999). Still, the emphasis of interactive computerized maps, as…

LabSurLab Report, Medellín 07-04

Fei An Tjan | 09 April 2011, 11:55 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , , , ,

LabSurLab is a gathering of different worldwide Labs taking place in Medellín first time this year. From the 6th of April to the 12th of April different projects will present their work and exchange ideas on subjects such as community improvement, hardware recycling and open source applications amongst others.

Performative practices of mapping

Radmila Radojevic | 19 May 2010, 6:40 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

“Perhaps one of the most important characteristics of . . . [a] map [is that it] has multiple entryways as opposed to the tracing, which always goes back “to the same.” The map has to do with performance”. (Deleuze and Guattari 1980/1987, 13-14)

According to Crampton “cartography should be understood as existence (becoming) rather than essence (fixed ontology)” (Crampton, 2009)…

Cartography of migration flows

Radmila Radojevic | 27 April 2010, 9:23 pm | 5 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

It has been acknowledged today that geography and cartography are not neutral or objective scientific practices but are ultimately about relationship between power, space and place. Yet, it was only at the end of 80s /early 90s, with development of critical cartography, that traditional definition of maps as scientific artifacts was challenged. It was argued at the time that maps…