Synthetic Landscapes

The Pioneers

2010-01-26T14:06:00.000-08:00

The Pioneers

Frieder Nake, 'Hommage à Paul Klee 13/9/65 Nr.2'

Found through - butdoesitfloat

Waterfall - Culture Group

2009-08-14T00:09:00.000-07:00

Maps in progress - Arlene O'Sullivan

Nasreen Mohamedi

2009-08-11T14:57:00.000-07:00

A line drawing by Nasreen Mohamdi. Nasreen employ all the qualities of line - spacing, weight, length, dashing - to evoke a sense of rhythm and depth.

If anyone is interested in finding out more about her drawings, here's a link to a catalogue of her work.

I first came across it at the last Documenta exhibtion.

Data Painting- Yann le Guennec

2009-08-05T15:51:00.000-07:00

Juxtaposition of local context and remote data...

data as input - pictures as output.

More examples of data/infoscapes here.

Notation - John Cage

2009-07-29T15:37:00.001-07:00

Lines of thought on the way home

A landscape could be thought of like a long score, a sequence of paralell experieces with abrupt and unexpected connections across time and space.

Image above is a score by John Cage - almost all his scores are available free online!

Photo Map Techniques

2009-07-29T05:01:00.001-07:00

Some great ideas for photo/drawing combinations- check it out

Folding Landscape

2009-07-29T04:58:00.001-07:00

A link to some simple instructions on how to fold a map.

Slow House

2009-07-28T13:25:00.001-07:00

Drawing by Diller & Scofidio - windscreen to window screen.

Laid out to continue the curving movement of an automobile along the drive, the house stretches out towards a sea view. The culmination of the journey is a large picture window beyond which hangs a television screen mimicing the real view.

Lecture Friday 24th by Dr Finola O'Kane

2009-07-23T12:59:00.001-07:00

Dr. Finola O'Kane Crimmins will be giving a talk on Friday 24th July at 1 pm in the boardroom in Richview on the landscape of Powerscourt & landscape representation. The talk is open to all interested parties.

Typographical Topography

2009-07-23T04:13:00.001-07:00

Alternative map making tools and a wide range of discussions/websites relating to the production and design of maps can be found at makingmaps.net

Moon Map

2009-07-19T12:26:00.000-07:00

This map of the moon precedes maps of equivalent detail of the earth's surface suggesting that conventional maps rely on a certain detachment or removal from the object of study - we map that which we can see from without.

Alba Illanes

2009-07-16T17:13:00.000-07:00

One of the many beautiful drawings by an ETSAM student Alba Illanes
Found as part of a workshop organised by Federico Soriano

The Triangulation of Ireland

2009-07-15T15:54:00.000-07:00

Betweenn 1824 and 1828 the Ordance Survey produced an accurate map of Ireland by means of a coordinated system of triangles, drawn along lines of sight between high points in the landscape. By physically measuring a 'baseline' along the shores of Lough Foyle all other distances could be inferred. More

Non-Site

2009-06-29T15:23:00.001-07:00

"By drawing a diagram, a ground plan of a house, a street plan to the location of a site, or a topographic map, one draws a "logical two dimensional picture." A "logical picture" differs from a natural or realistic picture in that it rarely looks like the thing it stands for. It is a two dimensional analogy or metaphor - A is Z."

A Provisional Theory of Non-Sites, Robert Smithson

Tide Table

2009-06-24T09:45:00.001-07:00

An animated charcoal drawing by the South African artist William Kentridge. Time and tide are recorded on a single surface through erasure and re-drawing.

FFFOUND

2009-06-24T04:13:00.000-07:00

fffound - An image sharing/finding resource... great for pictorial wandering.

Untitled Painting

2009-06-24T03:29:00.000-07:00

Untitled Painting - a conveyor belt landscape over which one can drop blobs of 'richter' paint and create landscape music. From todayandtomorrow.

Rethinking Topology and Topography

2009-06-24T03:19:00.000-07:00

If place exceeds the boundaries of topography... how might it be mapped?

Workshop Description

2009-06-23T16:00:00.000-07:00

aims

This workshop aims to instigate a discussion on how to represent landscape, from the understanding that how we represent a landscape circumscribes our future actions on it; what we see determines how we act.

method
This study will examine 2 specific types of representation – the historical picturesque and the contemporary map - thinking critically about their production and their application – and will apply this thinking to 2 sites in Dublin's outskirts, each with different landscape qualities.

product
The end product is projected as a series of new folding maps - a cross-fertilisation of the map and the picture and a synthesis of the visual and performative aspects of landscape.

timescale
This project will take place over 4 weeks in June/July, with 1-2 days of participation per week.