Mapping it out : an alternative atlas of contemporary cartographies / edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist ; with an introduction by Tom McCarthy ; project editor and chapter introductions, Andrew Brown.

Maps have always been at the heart of human knowledge. Whether they chart a newly discovered land or lay out a complicated process, maps serve to improve our understanding of what surrounds us. Maps make the complex simple, and reveal the complexity behind the apparently simple. Mapping It Out invit...

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Other Authors: Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010, Obrist, Hans Ulrich (Editor, writer of afterword.), McCarthy, Tom, 1969 May 22- (Writer of introduction), Brown, Andrew (Commissioning editor) (Writer of added text)
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : Thames & Hudson, 2014.
Subjects:
Maps in art.
Cartography.
Imaginary places > Maps.
Maps.
Genre:
Maps.
Physical Description:239 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 21 x 28 cm
Variant Title:
Alternative atlas of contemporary cartographies.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • "It is not down in any map; true places never are" / Tom McCarthy
  • Redrawn territories: Louise Bourgeois ; Jonas Mekas ; Richard Hamilton ; Pae White ; Étienne Chambaud ; Adam Chodzko ; Maurizio Cattelan ; Michael Craig-Martin ; Raqs Media Collective ; James Croak ; Marcus du Sautoy ; CurtisLeslie Anderson ; Benjamin D. Hennig ; Damien Hirst ; Artur Barrio ; Jorge Macchi ; Anri Sala ; Simone Forti ; Kai Krause ; Doug Aitken ; Rivane Neuenschwander ; Philip Hughes ; Mona Hatoum ; Christopher Stringer
  • Charting human life: Joel Gold ; Liam Gillick ; Eduardo Salcedo-Albarán ; Tim Berners-Lee ; Emanuel Derman ; César Hidalgo ; Olafur Eliasson ; Andres Jaque ; Gilbert & George ; Tehching Hsieh ; Goldin+Senneby ; Yoko Ono ; Erling Kagge ; John Maeda ; Joan Chiao ; Bruce Sterling ; Akram Zaatari ; Brian Knutson ; Mark Pagel ; Tom Standage ; Nicholas Christakis & James Fowler ; Eric Rodenbeck ; Kevin Kelly ; Enzo Mari ; Hans-Peter Feldmann ; Kader Attia ; Alexander Kluge ; Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa ; Scott King ; Nicholas Humphrey ; Juan Enriquez & Rodrigo Martinez ; Aaron Koblin ; Fabian Marti ; MIT SENSEable City Lab ; Suzanne Lacy ; Claude Parent ; Jennifer Jacquet ; Douglas Rushkoff ; Carlo Ratti ; Andrea Zanzotto
  • Scientia naturalis: W. Daniel Hillis ; George Church ; Tim & Mairead Robinson ; Armand Leroi ; Serian Sumner ; Dave McKean ; George F. Smoot ; Dimitar Sasselov ; Bruce Parker ; Newton & Helen Mayer Harrison ; Stuart Pimm ; Albert-László Barabási ; Timothy Taylor & Tom Frankland ; J. Craig Venter ; Yong-Yeol Ahn ; Alvy Ray Smith ; Gino Segre
  • Invented worlds: John Baldessari ; Yona Friedman ; Margarita Gluzberg ; Simon Fujiwara ; Joseph Grigely ; Laurence C. Smith ; Sean Carroll ; Matthew Barney ; Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster ; Rosa Barba ; Casey Reas ; Mariana Castillo Deball & Amalia Pica ; Qiu Zhijie ; Joost Grootens ; David Adjaye ; Tomás Saraceno ; Fritz Haeg ; François Dallegret ; Etel Adnan ; Susan Hiller ; Wang Jianwei ; International Necronautical Society ; Ernesto Neto ; Julieta Aranda ; Sanaa
  • The unmappable: Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla ; Céline Condorelli ; Augusto Di Stefano ; Jimmie Durham ; Fia Backström ; Monir Sharoudy Farmanfarmaian ; N.S. Harsha ; Toyo Ito ; Koo Jeong-A ; Anish Kapoor ; Annette Messager ; Nanos Valaoritis ; Matt Mullican ; Nancy Spero ; Hugo Suter ; Pamela Rosenkranz ; Philippe Parreno ; Nicolás Paris ; Ed Ruscha ; Carl Michael von Hausswolff ; Oraib Toukan ; Tris Vonna-Michell ; Jacques Roubaud ; Cerith Wyn Evans
  • You are here... and now / Hans Ulrich Obrist.