Map Abstraction Artistic Research

Kazuya Akimoto, New World Map, 2004.

Directions for today:

1. Go to Google Earth, if the application isn't already installed on your computer download it here.
   
2. Type in your address to see an aerial view of your home address
3. Pan & zoom until you find a composition you like
4. Print your map
5. When you have finished go to Google Maps
6. Type in your address
7. Pan & Zoom until you find an interesting composition (you can print more than one)
8. Print your map
9. Once you have finished check out the links below
   

Interesting Map Links:

1. Susan Stockwell
2. Chicago Festival of Maps
3. Strange Maps
4. Lachlan Humphreys paintings
5. Patrick John Mills
6. Matthew Cusick
7. Layla Curtis
8. Kim Schoenstadt
9. Josh Dorman
10. Map Log Art Blog
    

Contemporary Artists from the Mapping the Self show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago -- Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, John Cage, Janet Cardiff, The Center For Land Use Interpretation, Paul Chan, Agnes Denes, Jan Dibbets, Elmgreen & Dragset, Tom Friedman, Hamish Fulton, Douglas Huebler, Richard Long, Bruce Nauman, Frank Olive, Dennis Oppenheim, Kim Schoenstadt, Dan Wang, Haseeb Ahmed, Jeremiah Barber, Diana Frid, Paula Henderson, Shane Huffman, Jam Studio, Barbara Koenen, Patrick McGee, Adelheid Mers, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Stephanie Angell Nadeau, Judy Natal, OODA Group, Laurie Palmer, Claire Pentecost, Deb Sokolow, Deborah Stratman, Philip von Zweck, and Frances Whitehead

JOURNAL ACTIVITY: cut and paste your maps into pages of your altered book. Once you have finished begin making your thumbnail sketches of your map composition (at LEAST 3).

HOMEWORK: for wednesday, bring in something which has interesting texture that we can use in our map projects (for example, spaghetti, rice, netting, etc)