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/