CALL FOR PAPERS: Mapping Spaces: Cartographic Practices in Art & Architecture, College Art Association (CAA), 101st Annual Conference New York, New York, 13-16 February 2013.
Maps are representations bound to a given territory or place as much as to the social, political, cultural and economic practices of their production and reception. More than mere reflections, they generate space insofar as they make visible through their graphic forms and modalities precisely what cannot be seen. Thus, if maps picture a reality that exceeds or contradicts direct vision and experience, as the geographer Denis Wood suggests, then their accuracy and correspondence to the world may be based paradoxically on their status as fictional images. This panel seeks to address how art and architecture employ cartography as a medium and practice to produce spaces and the experience and knowledge that define them. How do artists and architects employ maps to produce a territory, environment, an experience? What constitutes a cartographic practice and how does it mediate the experience and knowledge of our world? What are the conditions and consequences of a map’s representability?
Please send proposals to Min Kyung Lee, Post-doctoral Fellow in Modern Architecture, Swarthmore College.
Deadline: 4 May 2012.