Mark Making/personal maps.cartography.diagrams August 31
Reading
Launching the Imagination page 2-9
Objectives
To introduce the varied possibilities of the "mark"--its descriptive, expressive, and conceptual potentials; to experiment with a range of "tools" and "techniques" for mark-making; to emphasize the innately personal character of tool selection, mark-making, and design
Vocabulary (please visually express these vocab terms in your project)
gesture, line, plane, volume, space, calligraphy, continuity, organizational lines, actual lines, implied lines, shape, form.
Materials
Your choice of mark-making tools; your final presentation canvass.
Assignment
Produce a map/cartography/diagram based on an ecology, anatomy, identity that combines a vocabulary of personal marks with some "evidence" of who you are and what you believe in. This evidence could take the form of prints (fingerprints?:), xeroxes, photographs (photo booth? polaroid? family photos?), text,, maps, etc. Try using some of the: marks and textures that you have created in class in combination with this evidence.
Examples:
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/
http://www.an-atlas.com/contents.html
http://www.radicalcartography.net/