<nettime> maps are more than geophysical realities

[Tjebbe van Tijen <t.tijen@cable.A2000.nl>]

Maps are representations that facilitate a spatial understanding of
things, concepts, conditions, processes or events in the human world. The
representation techniques used can vary from graphic arts and spatial
models to poetry, songs and dance. Maps not just reproduce geophysical
realities, but can also transmit the shape of sacred space and the realms
of fantasy and myth as explored by the inward eye. 

This is the introductory statement of an article based on a visual
argument about the functioning and understanding of maps that I did
publish four years ago in the Japanese magazine on urban issues '10+1'

An English version of the text with all the related images can now be read
and seen at my website: 

http://people.a2000.nl/ttijen/Maparticle/0maptit.htm

The article ranges from aboriginal landscape reading of dreamtime stories
to the Yugoslavian process of redrawing maps through rape and massacre. 


Tjebbe van Tijen

Imaginary Museum Projects (IMP), Amsterdam

Background information on:
http://www.iisg.nl/~tvt/index.html

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