111c.  Map as Metaphor3

This is the third panel in a three-part series investigating how the map can be understood as a metaphor, both as material artifact and cultural object as well as an artistic tool. The series was organized by The Center for Book Arts and made possible through a grant by the New York Chapter of the American Painting History Association. Maps and atlases are an integral part of the history of the book as well as a physical and conceptual resource for book arts. This program of three panels features scholars, scientists, and artists who will explore questions about power, information, identity, economics, ecosystems, and culture. 

Panel 3: “The Artist Map: Appropriation and Creation” Moderator:

Heidi Neilson, artist and co-founder of SP Weather Station.

Panelists:

Doug Beube, mixed-media artist and independent curator

Martin C. Brückner, Associate Director of the Center of Material Culture Studies and Professor of English, University of Delaware

Dahlia Elsayed, artist and Assistant Professor of Humanities at CUNY LaGuardia Community College

Katarina Jerinic, mixed-media artist and public space-based interventionist

111b.  Map as Metaphor 2

This is the second panel in a three-part series investigating how the map can be understood as a metaphor, both as material artifact and cultural object as well as an artistic tool. The series was organized by The Center for Book Arts and made possible through a grant by the New York Chapter of the American Painting History Association. Maps and atlases are an integral part of the history of the book as well as a physical and conceptual resource of book arts. This program of three panels features scholars, scientists, and artists who will explore questions about power, information, identity, economics, ecosystems, and culture. 

Panel 2: “The Eco-Techno Map: Data and Online Initiatives”

Heidi Neilson, artist and founder of SP Weather Station

Panelists:

Liz Barry, urban designer, Co-Founder & Co-Director of TreeKIT, and Co-Founder and Director of Community Development at Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science

Ingrid Burrington, artist-in-residence at Data and Society Research Institute and fellow at Autodesk/Pier 9’s Experimental Research Lab

Eric W. Sanderson, director of the Mannahatta Project, author, and Senior Conservation Ecologist, Wildlife Conservation Society

Natalie Campbell, independent curator and co-founder of SP Weather Station

111a.  Map as Metaphor 1

This is the first panel in a three-part series investigating how the map can be understood as a metaphor, both as material artifact and cultural object as well as an artistic tool. The series was organized by The Center for Book Arts and made possible through a grant by the New York Chapter of the American Painting History Association. Maps and atlases are an integral part of the history of the book as well as a physical and conceptual resource of book arts. This program of three panels features scholars, scientists, and artists who will explore questions about power, information, identity, economics, ecosystems, and culture.

Panel 1: “The Socio-Political Map: Control and Power”

Moderator:

Heidi Neilson, artist and co-founder of SP Weather Station.

Panelists: Neil Freeman, cartographer, artist, and urban planner Shannon Mattern, media artist and Associate Professor of Media Studies at The New School Lize Mogel, artist and co-editor of An Atlas of Radical Cartography

110.  Leah Taylor is an active freelance writer and the Associate curator of the Kenderdine Art Gallery and College Building Galleries on the University of Saskatchewan campus in Saskatoon, Canada. The inaugural Toronto Art Book Fair features her exhibit Somewhere in the Middle with artists Amalie Atkins, Joi Arcand, Troy Gronsdahl, Ellen Moffat, and Kara Uzelman.

109.  Leah Mackin is an artist based in Pittsburgh; Esther S White guest hosts.

108.  Miami-based Carol Todaro is an artist and writer whose work often combines both activities in the form of sculptural tableaus and artists' books.

107.  Trevor Powers works with photographs, artist books, collaboration, coincidence and curatorial projects in western Massachusetts.

106.  Esther S. White curates the Northampton Print and Book Fair and publishes collaborative zines and short-run artist books as Sister Sister Books.

105.  John Cutrone, director of the Jaffe Center for Book Arts, in Boca Raton, Florida, speaks about the exhibit Wanderlust! - the work of John Eric Broaddus.

104.  Buzz Spector speaks about his work in conjunction with the exhibit Buzz Spector: The Book Under (De-) Construction at The Center for Book Arts in NYC.