ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING

Please join us for our West Coast launch of ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING - New Cartographies of Networks and Territories, during ISEA 2006/ZeroOne San Jose, a Global Festival of Art on the Edge. Many of our book's contributors are also artists and presenters at the conference and festival, including Steve Dietz, its director.

Friday August 11 from 6.00-8.00 pm
at
Paragon Bar
Montgomery Hotel
211 South First St
San Jose, CA

We look forward to seeing you there!
http://01sj.org

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"a thoughtful, far-ranging look at how mapping techniques are being used to visualize a lot more than landforms and cityscapes" - Richard Chin, St. Paul Pioneer Press, July 16, 2006. Continue reading "Map book takes readers into formerly uncharted territory".

More to follow from reviews in Blueprint (UK), ICON (UK), Print (US), PAGE (Germany),
Metropolis (US) and FORM (Germany)

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"Else/Where: Mapping is an unusual collection of essays on the topic of mapping. It is not a book on cartography; in fact, none of the 60 contributors to the book are trained cartographers. In this way, the book is a very timely reflection of the current state of mapping in the world. With the explosion in accessible, digital technology, mapping has moved into the hands of non-technically minded people. The release of Google Maps and the subsequent torrent of mashups – data of an often idiosyncratic nature placed on top of a Google Maps street map or satellite image – and other similar technologies have moved the business of mapping out of the realm of trained and specialized cartographers. The golden age of cartography is long past."

Continue reading Paul Heersink's review of E/W on the Canadian Cartographic Association's weblog http://ccablog.blogspot.com/2006/06/elsewhere-mapping.html>http://ccablog.blogspot.com/2006/06/elsewhere-mapping.html

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