GenderArtNetPresentation
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A few notes on maps and the first approaches towards genderArtNet.
When we started the project, we tried to decide the kind of map we wanted to create. By looking at maps, we realized that a map was not only a tool to answer the question where, but also to answer many questions at the same time. A map that combines geography and statistical information can answer simultaneously the questions where and how much, a map that combines geography and information about a person can serve as proof against this person, a map that combines geography and classifications can answer simultaneously the questions where and what kind of.
Mapping and counting
In 1854, there were different hypotheses used to explain cholera. It came from a miasma in the atmosphere, or was a punition coming from God. John Snow (http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/snowcricketarticle.html) thought differently: the disease would come from contaminated water. When a tragic outbreak of cholera hit Soho, he decided to count the number of deaths and located the places where they lived and worked on a map. By doing this, he was able to show that the number of dead people increased in a zone situated nearby a particular pump. The map contains an important number of bars representing the amounts of deaths. This map helps to locate quantities and gives arguments for a precise hypothesis.
More than one century later, with the advent of the digital technology, the combination of statistics and geography has become usual. Joni Seager (http://www.bentley.edu/academics-research/faculty_research/faculty_database/faculty_detail.cfm?id=1308432), a feminist cartographer, uses the geographical map to position pie charts representing the importance of the numbers of rapes reported to the police worldwide. The map helps the counts to count.
Mapping and proving
Since a long time, maps are used in tribunals to help the judges decide. Which landowner do possess a particular piece of land? How to reconstruct a crime scene? The archive of the Royal Chancery of Valladolid contains a wide variety of such maps. This map has been drawn to give crucial informations concerning the locations of different people at the moment of Dona Juana Losada Y Navia's death: the distance between every witness, the obstacles (doors and walls) that obstructed their vision or their audition. With one objective, to determine who was in the position to hear her last will.
Mapping and classifying
- What kind of? Classification + geopositioning = Operational Discrimination
- Preparing the holocaust: vlc ~/Documents/heaj/notes/ibm_256kb.mp4 Screenshots
- Mapping of Sex Offenders (http://www.towards.be/site/spip.php?article140)
- Post Code / ACORN (http://www.towards.be/site/spip.php?article305) epistemic violence
Civil and military industries
- Everyday technology is a by-product of military technology
- Digital angel (http://www.digitalangel.com/)
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House (Audre Lorde)
- Getting a grip / or the illusion of/ on reality
- When you look at the world with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
- Who can map whom/what?
- Joni Seager, the Penguin Atlas of Women in the World
- OpenStreetmap (http://www.openstreetmap.org)
Only paradoxes to offer and not problems easy to resolve (Olympe de Gouges)
- Paradoxical feminism, paradoxical sleep (moment where dreams occur)
- Poetic distance
- Stockport Emotion Map, Christian Nold evince ~/Documents/genderartnet/StockportEmotionMap.pdf &
- Stitch And Split, Harrisson, Laurence Rassel & Pierre De Jaeger evince ~/Documents/genderartnet/poster.pdf &
- http://4816.nsew.at/4816/public/location/index
- Archipel, Pierre Huyghebaert et Pierre Marchand evince ~/Documents/Constant/osp/poster-07.pdf &
Preliminary samples
- GenderArtNetSamples inkscape ~/Public/genderArtNet/gan_all_kw.svg &
- http://www.genderartnet.eu/graph/
- Ludivine: from large list of keywords to soft/fuzzy categories, how to name them, why use images instead of a title?
- themes-faces /home/nicolas/Documents/genderartnet/gan_berlin-17-04-2010/themes-faces
- imagery from space: distanciate, imaginary dimension /home/nicolas/Documents/genderartnet/gan_berlin-17-04-2010/space-pieces_influences
- Sketches: /home/nicolas/Documents/genderartnet/gan_berlin-17-04-2010/lyt
