“Database Visualizations, Mapping and Cartography: Genealogy of Space, Visual Representation for Knowledge in Art” presented by Gracia

Symposium:

• ISEA2010: 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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• Database Visualizations, Mapping and Cartography: Genealogy of Space, Visual Representation for Knowledge in Art

• Laura Plana Gracia

Venue(s):

• Volkshochschule (VHS Dortmund), Dortmund, Germany

• Art and technology awareness is used in new media as a strategy since 1989, the end of the Cold War. It symbolizes the analogue to digital system conversion and the end of industrial mode of production. It also implies the dominion of public social space under surveillance and the impact on landscapes, among others. Cartography is a system of visual representation of knowledge to display in exhibitions of contemporary art solving problems to society under value of ethics. Also it belongs to Genealogy of Space, a categorization initiated by Foucault with panoptic and heterotopia, which continues with non-site, atopia, distopia, utopia, the permanent site of power, TAAZ (Temporal Autonomous Zone and Borders). All physical or non-physical spaces are conceptualized in an embodied/disembodied effect on the subject. Psycogeography is another system of representation giving solutions as heterocronos or real time, an approach to performance. The deconstruction in dada objecthood and the meaning of surrealist images make contemporary cinematic visual era understand what Tarkovsky in this film Stalker synthesizes under the meaning of the cave, a manner of production art in relation to society.

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