‘Mind the Map’ day turned out to be excellent – a seminar day linked with a fascinating exhibition at the Transport Museum in Covent Garden. Talks and interviews with several artists doing interesting things with maps.
Simon Patterson giving an account of his now iconic ‘Great Bear’ variation on the London tube map and a new piece called Saptarishi. Then Jeremy Wood walking the landscape with a GPS device to create his own personal cartography http://www.gpsdrawing.com/maps/traverse-me.html Then Susan Stockwell making wall-size maps of South America with used coffee filters, Africa and Afghanistan in bank notes and the whole world in computer components. Much more at http://www.susanstockwell.co.uk
Many ideas here that could feed into my map-based Detour 3. For more on the exhibition try http://london-underground.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/photos-mind-map-london-transport-museum.html
In the meantime a digression from my ‘detours’ with a just-for-fun project set by tutor Alan – an open invitation to make some ‘mail-art’ based on picture postcards and to be sent through the post led to an afternoon spent doing silly things with photoshop. I may post some more.
