Making Art From Maps: Inspiration, Techniques, and an International Gallery of Artists

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My students engaged in this project mostly during remote and hybrid learning, and some adaptations for accessibility had to be made. A 3D map of Manhattan by Luis DilgerGerman designer Dilger took OpenStreetMap’s data of various cities and visualised the satellite-based information using DEM Earth in Cinema 4D, transforming them into 3D prints. Barnstorming the prairies: how aerial vision shaped the Midwest) that make me think it is clearer to shift to the term ‘view from nowhere’. The initial view is of shapes of bright colour, varied and butting up close together, the characteristic play of the maps’ lines and symbols visible at a distance before any detail can be ascertained. The viewing position is posited and structured as one through which ‘knowledge’ is produced of abstractions and abstract relations in the conceptualisation of remote and unknown regions of the globe.

We talked about places he missed, and he would spend hours virtually traveling, with Google Maps as his guide.She joined Art21 Educators in 2018 and still enjoys the ongoing relationships, support, and inspiration from the Art21 community.

Since 2003 he has covered everything from antique map collecting to the latest in geospatial technology. The ‘equator’ formed by the joining of the upper and lower wedges provides an artificial horizon in an otherwise disorienting space (Princenthal and Earenfight, 2008, p. Rather than ‘seeing through’ maps to a posited underlying reality, instead maps are means of constructing knowledge and “making a world” (ibid, p. Many authors writing in this field contribute to an unfolding debate as to how we may usefully define ‘the map’.My approach in this case draws on Hawkins’ discussion of the encounter with the artwork, but acknowledges that the nature of my encounter as a reader is not that of a spectator in the installation. That is, it is not conceptually inhabitable by a body, but still maintains the notion of being a consciousness, in that it is able to cognise, to view, and to know (the viewed subject). Rather than a form of expression of a universal human cognitive function, Wood interprets map production as arising in particular cultures in response to developing needs for communication and depiction.

My son, who’s about to go off on a big travelling adventure, has said he will make sure he collects many maps on the way as he wants to create his DIY map art as a memento of his trip. Each original takes weeks or even months to produce, but by carefully scribing every letter and drawing every line by hand, my maps are elevated to fine art. Our intuitive customization process allows you to select from a vast palette of colors and add your own text, making it truly yours. By the end of the summer, we had relocated to the US, and for the first time in my professional life, I found myself teaching in a Massachusetts public high school, similar to the one I attended as a teenager, craving world travel.However, other authors have put forward more uses of the term ‘synoptic’ in recent years (see particularly Weems, J.