CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS & WORKSHOP LEADERS

Other Cartographies: Pre-Conference Workshop in cape town, south Africa, August 11, 2023

Organized by the International Cartographic Association’s Commission on Art and Cartography

Submission Deadline: June 15th, 2023

The ICC2023’s theme is SMART CARTOGRAPHY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. How can this theme be interpreted through Art? The Commission on Art & Cartography’s Terms of Reference include the directive to “advance the field of artistic and experimental cartographies, including but not limited to such subfields as narrative cartography, cinematic cartography, sensory and phenomenological approaches to mapping, locative media, performative and performance-based cartographies, and media archaeological and other research-creation or practice-led processes.” What might “sustainability” mean in terms of these and other such subfields? However the theme is interpreted, one thing is clear: other ways are needed, other points of view, other methodologies, visions, practices. What other cartographies can challenge the status quo? 

The goal of this workshop is to provide an intellectual and creative space to share different ideas around artistic methodologies of mapping and engaging with space and place, particularly those that challenge the status quo of capitalism, colonialism, extractive resource development (etc., the list is long). The format of the workshop will be as follows: a morning of lightning presentations from all of the participants, to introduce each other; an afternoon of 3-4 mini-workshops that explore different methodologies or practices related to our theme of Other Cartographies.

The workshop will be hosted by the National Geospatial Information in Cape Town, South Africa on Friday, August 11^th from 10am-5pm. A catered lunch is included!

Please submit either a 100-150 word proposal if you are interested in leading a mini-workshop of about 45-60 minutes, or a short bio if interested in attending as a participant.

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Submission Process & Registration

The workshop is open to everyone with an interest in alternative and sustainable mapping art practices and experimental cartographies. Registration is required and is free of charge. Please note that it is not necessary to be registered for the main ICC conference (which requires fees) to be able to attend the workshop. For more information or to register, please contact Workshop Coordinator Sharron Mirsky at smirsky@yorku.ca 

Timeline

May 20, 2023 – Call for participants and workshop leaders

June 15, 2023 – Deadline for submitting abstracts and proposals (max. 150 words)

June 22, 2023 – Successful Applicants notified;

July 1, 2023 – Final program released;

August 11, 2023 – Workshop prior to the ICC 2023

The Commission for Art and Cartography’s current goals are to advance the field of artistic and experimental cartographies, and to facilitate, through workshops and special events, interdisciplinary collaborations and exchanges of ideas and practices amongst diverse practitioners and theorists to promote the development of hybrid artistic cartography practices.

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ICC2021 news: Show & Tell workshop + ArtCarto Panels

The Commission on Art & Cartography hosted the Show & Tell Pre-Conference Workshop on Monday, Dec. 13th (Dec. 14th for our Australian members) and saw 12 fantastic, intriguing, thought-provoking presentations in “Pecha-Kucha”-like fashion, starting with (as Vice-Chair Sharon Hayashi put it) “the more-than-human, moving from larger time spans towards the urban, morphing through software experiments before the ending on more directly political spatial battles.” A wonderful experience for all (recording below).

Recording of the Pre-Conference Workshop of the 30th International Cartographic Conference (Florence, Italy)
Organized by the Commission for Art & Cartography
December 13, 2021
Presenters: Jorn Seemann, Joshua Singer, Taien Ng-Chan, Michael Trommer, Chelsea Nestel, Joanna Gardener, Kévin Pinvidic, Nick Lally, Sebastien Caquard, Elise Olmedo, Glenn Finley, Sheila Nadimi

The workshop used a MIRO board as a visual collaborative tool, where participants were invited to add comments even after the workshop, and can be viewed here: https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_koBWxGo

Although most ArtCarto members were not able to travel to the 30th ICC itself due to the ongoing pandemic, Sandra Ignagni was able to attend and to represent the Commission as Chair of the two Art & Cartography panels that ran on December 15th with 6-7 presentations each. Sandra noted that the presentations went fairly smoothly, that there was a technical coordinator in the room who ran the WebEx (in Italian) and helped troubleshoot a few very minor technical difficulties.

There were four varieties of presentations:

• Fully recorded
• Recorded with presenter joining remotely for the Q/A
• Fully in-person
• Remote presentation

In the afternoon we held our Commission on Art & Cartography Business Meeting, which gave an opportunity to discuss a few ideas for the upcoming year. Thanks to everyone who participated!

Show & Tell: The Future of Art & Cartography

Zoom grid photo from ArtCarto’s 2020 workshop “A Sense of Impending Doom”

A Pre-Conference Workshop of the 30th International Cartographic Conference
Organized by the Commission for Art & Cartography
December 13, 2021
Synchronously ONLINE at 8-10PM CET (Florence, Italy) / 2-4PM EST (Toronto, Canada) /
11AM-1PM PST (Los Angeles, USA) / 6-8AM AEDT on Dec 14 (Melbourne, Australia)
(Check your time zone)
Zoom link will be sent before the workshop date.

The workshop will begin with a series of short (7-8 minutes) “PechaKucha”-like slide presentations* of your works-in-progress, project ideas, theoretical musings, or other research that might not be ready for the mainstage of the ICC. Or don’t present and join us as a viewer! Following these presentations, we will break out into group discussions, with the aim of generating feedback, creating new connections, inspiring new works, and exploring possibilities for collaborations, all with the potential of having your work featured in an upcoming special Art & Cartography issue of the International Journal of Cartography.

To participate, please RSVP to taien [AT] yorku [dot] ca with your name and a short description of what you would like to share (100-150 words, images optimal but optional).
Note that registration in the main ICC Conference (which requires fees) is not required.
This workshop is open to all and free of charge.

Deadline for REGISTRATION: December 1st, 2021

*A “PechaKucha”(™) is a lightning talk presentation that is 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide, but we are only using this for inspiration rather than as a strict format.

We hope to see you at this synchronous global online event!

Upcoming: Online series of conversations around maps and stories

SCHEDULE 

Wednesday Feb. 3, 2021 (12:00-13:30 EST): Reflections on cartographic languages when collectively mapping possible worlds

• Séverin Halder – Activist, geographer & co-editor of “This Is Not an Atlas” 
• Paul Schweizer – Geographer, popular educator & co-editor of “This Is Not an Atlas” 
• Pablo Mansilla Quiñones – Associate Professor, Institute of Geography. Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso. 

Registration: https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAvcOuvpzMiG9GqsMlDlxEq_50w_qi20MVn?fbclid=IwAR0OkpwQTbOrT4q904C_5-qgBuavD-qZbrUN4upD1nALojbP4tLjd99KSqk

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Thursday Feb. 25, 2021 (12:00-13:30 EST): Listening

• Anne Knowles – Historical geographer & professor of history at University of Maine 
• Margaret Pearce – Citizen Potawatomi Nation tribal member and cartographer 

Registration: https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwkceCqpjgrHtB3rSdJ5TmXnPYef_NjPGTt?fbclid=IwAR0qMhXJplcAaI4znvDdHn6KI3R5Kb7C-ht9_gpjrH1i24cCgVgkFcTmzts 

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Tuesday March 23, 2021 (14:30-16:00 EST): Weaving stories threads: An Indigenous Cartographic Engagement

• Annita Lucchesi – Cheyenne & PhD student at the University of Arizona
• Pualani Louis – Kanaka ʻŌiwi & Associate Researcher with UC Davis Native American Studies

Registration: https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUudOisrTgoEt0YDodiAdFuhqNf69gkwhQs?fbclid=IwAR3q-31EaaPzVaVTEfBvzmU_sN6UXuHEZzaYLicnZC9oL-NKsLTfbaO85Fk

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Thursday April 8, 2021 (12:00-13:30 EST): Mapping the Skin and the Guts of Exile’s Stories

• Élise Olmedo – Banting Postdoctoral fellow at Concordia University 
• Sébastien Caquard – Associate Professor of Geography & co-director of the Center for Oral History and Digital storytelling (COHDS) at Concordia University 

Registration: https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtf-uhrTkpEtMbdfOcgBpXuAVF_QClEa2d?fbclid=IwAR3HnsR5XNGnmNg0-evexVyLoWVcm_hrd_N2OgQy6ZMlO9fSqMWqeiOap4Q

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Thursday June 3, 2021 (12:00-13:30 EST): Speaking (with) maps: A threefold map-talk on cartographic objects, narratives and migrancies

• Tania Rossetto – Associate Professor of Cultural Geography & Co-convenor of the Mobility & Humanities Centre, University of Padua
• Laura Lo Presti – Postdoc Researcher, University of Padua & ICOG Visiting Research Fellow, University of Groeningen
• Giada Peterle – Lecturer in Literary Geography, University of Padua 

Registration: https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZItfu2oqzksGdw9Pkjyz9NTp-3wlPOwdYZ-?fbclid=IwAR2CNO_5dzzXUNilSsesq1EBS4CPWDWTjH4mzcz7LqBvQMpWluiJf-yJWqQ

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Poster design by Sepideh

Archival traces and ephemeral moments: website & video documenting the workshop A Sense of Impending Doom

The last few months of social distancing and general uncertainty about the future have generated a new appreciation for collectivity, closeness, and community. As we are separated from each other and travelling is no longer a viable option, how can we find ways to share and connect through a sense of beingness, while remaining in the safety of our own homes?

The Art & Cartography Commission of the International Cartographic Society, in partnership with the Hamilton Perambulatory Unit, presented an online “walkshop” in July 2020, as part of the conference Drifting Bodies/Fluent Spaces. The event investigated the act of mapping and situating ourselves, confronting our anxieties, as well as tuning in to what brings us comfort in our own space. The group of 30 participants, located all over the world, connected and sensed each other in unique ways through a series of analog mapping exercises that took place in the virtual space of Zoom. Using simple tools in their vicinity, such as a piece of paper, a camera, and a marker, the participants captured their bodies in space, the sky above their heads, as well as their relationships and emotions to their environment.

Visit the website to view the traces and outcomes of the Strata-Mapping exercises, as well as the full video documentation featuring various perspectives – from the bird’s-eye view of the zoom grid to the close-ups of the personal and intimate moments.

https://impendingdoomwalk.wordpress.com/

Want to participate?

It’s not too late and we hope that the archive will keep growing! Discover new and unique ways to experience mapping the space that surrounds you by following the set of exercises listed on the “Outcomes” page. Send your emotional and sensorial Strata-Map to hamiltonperambulatoryunit@gmail.com

A Sense of Impending Doom: a strata-walk for turbulent times

Date: WEDNESDAY, JULY 22ND, 2020
Time: 7AM LOS ANGELES; 10AM TORONTO; 3pm GUIMARÃES (Portugal); 12AM MIDNIGHT MELBOURNE
Place: Simultaneous world-wide Zoom & in Guimarães (please email walk.lab2pt@gmail.com to register if you would like to attend in person, outdoors and safely distanced)

HPU + ArtCarto Investigating the Impending Zoom

How do we sense and deal with impending doom in our everyday lives and in our creative work? Can sensorial and mundane art-making practices help us to map our way out? The Hamilton Perambulatory Unit (HPU), in partnership with the Commission for Art and Cartography (ArtCarto) of the International Cartographic Society, presents a Strata-Walk (Doom and Zoom edition) for turbulent times. This live, online event will begin with a video presentation/performance on the Strata-Walk, HPU’s framework of stratigraphic place-making and mapping, before turning the focus onto the digital and technological space that connects us. Using a system of prompts, Strata-Walkers map their environments in a performative gesture by turning their attention to one element of place, then documenting it in a Strata-Map. This experimental, emotional, ephemeral cartography relies on the body-as-sensor moving through space, as well as other techniques of reading, framing and re-framing one’s self and surroundings.

For this walkshop (part of the international conference Drifting Bodies/Fluent Spaces), four members of HPU and ArtCarto – located in Canada, the US, and Australia – will lead participants through an investigation of the digital strata of Zoom and the intimate, analog materialities strata of one’s room (if in lockdown, as many still are) or wherever one happens to be. Starting in the centre of our collective Zoom and doom, we will explore our embodied emotions, networked places, and live speculative imaginings, mapping our way out to find the sky above us all. The resulting collective mappings will be constructed into an ad hoc art exhibition and all participants will share credit.

Participants are asked to bring one or two sheets of blank paper, a black marker, a device with a camera, and the web-conferencing application Zoom pre-downloaded (can be on same device as camera, or ideally, a separate device). A Zoom link with password will be shared a day before the event.

For registration or more info, contact: hamiltonperambulatoryunit@gmail.com

Conference website: https://walk.lab2pt.net/

Tokyo July 13-14, 2019 – Workshop on Mapping The Olympic Sites

Commission for Art & Cartography’s Preconference Workshop

Title: Reclaiming Through Mapping: The Olympic Sites of Tokyo

Date and Time: Saturday, July 13^th (10am-4pm) – Sunday, July 14^th (10am-4pm)

Place: Tokyo Metropolitan University, Akihabara Satellite Campus, Meeting room B

Call for Participation: The International Cartographic Association (ICA) Commission on Art & Cartography invites you to participate in their Pre-Conference Workshop “Reclaiming through Mapping: Olympic Sites of Tokyo.” Some of these spaces, including the main conference venue, are on reclaimed land or artificial islands in Tokyo Bay built out of waste landfill. This workshop investigates the question of how place is constructed and mapped, using an experimental methodology developed by the artist-research collective Hamilton Perambulatory Unit, who will lead a participatory mapping walk in Tokyo that looks to uncover the layers of urban development history of the 2 Tokyo Olympics and the high-growth (1964) and post-growth (2020) periods they represent. This interdisciplinary workshop uses hybrid spatial and sensory ethnography and intermedial approaches to map a site and distinguish the layers of time, history, materiality, and digital city-image. Participants will be asked to contribute to the final multi-media strata-map of Tokyo’s Olympic sites.

Workshop Description: To begin this two-day workshop, we will meet at the Tokyo Metropolitan University for short presentations to contextualize our experimental and sensory mapping methodologies, before continuing the discussion on the trains while heading towards the Toyosu fish market for lunch (45min from Akihabara). We will then visit the nearby construction site of the Athlete’s Village on Harumi Island while we give some background on the area, and spend some time mapping the site. On the second day, we will meet at one of the 1964 Olympic sites to further explore mapping methodologies before heading back to Tokyo Metropolitan University to share results. The data collected will help answer the following research questions: How does the official Olympic narrative affect the sites? How do experimental cartographies work to investigate how place is constructed?

Registration: The workshop is open to everyone with an interest in sensory mapping art practices and experimental cartographies. Registration is required and is free of charge. Please note that it is not necessary to be registered for the main ICC conference (which requires fees) to be able to attend the workshop. For more information or to register, please contact Taien Ng-Chan taien [at] yorku.ca or Sharon Hayashi hayashi [at] yorku.ca. Please include a short bio and indicate your interest in the workshop.

NEW: Creative Documentation Video (shot and edited by Sarah Choi)

Maps and Emotions workshop – Day 2

In a morning we met at the Jefferson memorial. Mathilde Christmann and Elise Olmedo (and Mathias Poisson) took us to a multi sensory mapping activity. Following a map score methodology we walked around the site focusing on our emotions and perceptions and we then we mapped our experiences.

In the afternoon we went back to the Washington University Library and had two series of papers presentations followed by discussions and exchanges on multiple aspects of the relationships between maps and emotions. We kept the discussions going on a rooftop bar near the University. Now we need to decide what to do with all the great material presented and created during these two days…

Maps and Emotions workshop – Day 1

About 60 people joined us for this first day, witch was more than the 50 people expected. Fortunately, the beautiful room that was made available for us (Thanks Nuala Cowan) at the National Churchill Library and Center at George Washington University.

This first afternoon was divided in two parts. During the first half of the afternoon we had six stimulating presentations on different aspects of the relationships between maps, places, emotions, nostalgia and memory. Then after the break, the group was divided in two: one subgroup went outside under the rain to collect images based on different topographic maps of Washington DC, while the second subgroup stayed cool inside drawing time maps about their journeys to the workshop (more details about the program of the workshop here).

Program Maps & Emotions workshop / July 1-2, 2017 / Washington DC

This workshop aims to bring together artists, scholars and students from cartography, geography, the humanities and the arts who are interested in exploring further the relationships between maps, emotions and places. We have a combination of presentations and activities planned to foster these discussions.

The workshop is jointly organized by the ICA Commissions on Art & Cartography, Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualization (CogVis), and Topographic Mapping.

 

Preliminary Program

Saturday 1 July 2017

12:15 – 12:30 Registration

12:30 – 12:45 Workshop Opening

Introduction to the workshop
Sébastien Caquard, Canada, Amy Griffin, Australia, and Alex Kent, UK

12:45 – 14:15 Session 1 – Mapping Memories (Chair: Alex Kent)

Mapping memories in a flooded landscape: a place reenactment project
Justine Gagnon, Université Laval, Canada

Cartographic narratives and deep mapping: a conceptual proposal
Daniel Melo Ribeiro, PUCSP, Brazil

Nostalgic landscapes: Virtually visiting the past with the Liquid Galaxy
Amanda B. Tickner, Michigan State University, USA

Personal Geographies: Experimental Mapmaking through Archive and Memory
Cristina Jumbo and Carolina Velasco, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador

Mapping as a means to evoke sensory impression and experience
Joanna Gardener, RMIT University, Australia

Off Course: A Creative Exploration of Cartography, Cuisine and Narrative
Kelsey Boylan and Preethi Balakrishnan, University of Texas, Austin, USA

14:15 – 14:45 Coffee Break

14:45 – 16:45 Parallel Activities

Experiencing Washington, DC through the maps of the other
Alexander Kent, Canterbury Christchurch University, UK, and Anja Hopfstock, Bundesamt fur Kartographie und Geodesie, Germany

Mapping the path or a destiny – Chronography
Olga Kisseleva, Pantheon-Sorbonne University, France and Aleksandra Stanczak, France

16:45 – 17:30 Parallel Activity Wrap-Up

 

Sunday 2 July 2017

9:00 – 11:00 On-Site Activity at FDR Memorial, National Mall

Through the Sensible, Maps and Scores
Mathilde Christmann, Elise Olmedo, and Mathias Poisson, France

We will meet at the FDR Memorial on the National Mall

11:00 – 13:00 Lunch and Return Travel to the Churchill Center, Gelman Library, George Washington University

13:00 – 14:30 Session 2 – Tools and Representations (Chair: Sébastien Caquard)

Drawing videogame mental maps: from emotional games to emotions of play
Hovig Ter Minassian, University of Tours, France and Manuel Boutet, University of Nice, France

3D Mapping of Safety Perception using Augmented Reality,
Andrew Bell, Antoni Moore, and Sandra Mandic, University of Otago, New Zealand

LINESCAPES: virtual and real experiences of cities
Javiera Advis, Germany

Emotional maps as participatory planning support mechanism
Jirka Panek, Palacky University at Olomouc, Czech Republic

Putting placemarks on watermarks: mapping, fluidity and the River of Emotions
Cate Turk, University of Western Australia, Australia

Viewpoints evoke emotions
Julia Mia Stirnemann, University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

14:30 – 15:00 Coffee Break

15:00 – 16:30 Session 3 – Perception and Cognition (Chair: Amy Griffin)

Social perception of flood risk in maps: emotions or reality?
Jan D. Bláha, Czech Republic

Mapping experiences of personal appropriation of a new place from a diachronic perspective,
Carmen Brando¹, Catherine Dominguès², Laurence Jolivet², Eric Mermet¹ and Sevil Seten¹, EHESS Paris,¹ Institut Géographique National,² France

Emotional Lines: Collectively mapping Syrian border stories
Meghan Kelly, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Visual analysis of objective and subjective references to locations and places
Susanne Bleisch and Daria Hollenstein, FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland

Emotional Framing of Climate Change Maps
Carolyn Fish, Penn State University, USA, and Amy Griffin, UNSW Canberra, Australia

Mapping Emotions: Examples of Power Places
Alenka Poplin, Iowa State University, USA

16:30 – 17:00 Wrap-up (Chairs: Sébastien Caquard and Amy Griffin)