Contemporary artists use maps and mapping to explore all these ideas, but some artists stand out as perfect entryways to using maps in the classroom. Denis Cosgrove has put forward these terms, drawing on the figure of the mythical Greek sun-god Apollo who drove his chariot across the sky on a daily basis, pulling with him the sun. Last time I talked about how maps aren’t just about roads and rivers, they can also celebrate memories and stories.

I use a close reading of a selected area of Targets to open out questions of map interpretation in light of the recognition of maps as irreducibly both graphic images and texts. The map is an outcome of processes, and it generates further processes through its circulation and reception in the world. A 3D map of Manhattan by Luis DilgerGerman designer Dilger took OpenStreetMap’s data of various cities and visualised the satellite-based information using DEM Earth in Cinema 4D, transforming them into 3D prints.A hemispherical dividing line corresponds to the equator, and top-to-bottom linear divisions correspond to meridians, though fewer than we might find on a globe, such that curved trapezoidal panels are formed. You got all these, kind of shapes that complement one another but don't necessarily align perfectly, and that's kind of what I'm looking for," said Fairburn.

A non-historian, this brings to my mind vague TV images of the Kennedys, black and white, the Cold War, men in thick-framed glasses and suits, in strong contrast with my image of the US that continues to bomb Afghanistan in the present.In terms of embodiment and positionality, the god’s eye view is de-embodied, while still figuring the ‘position’ of a consciousness. In this register, autonomy is represented as an inevitable, and beneficial, technological development.

While the human ‘inhabitant’ of the operator’s position is removed from directly inhabiting the viewpoint, and so is removed from direct danger, the viewpoint is also produced through the embodied, and positional, labour of many workers. Access for the viewer is afforded by one of the trapezoidal panels forming a door, mounted on castors, which the viewer is able to close on themselves once inside (see fig.

However, the viewer’s experience of Targets as a source of information and historical instruction depends on their prior knowledge. The artworks gathered here provide an opportunity to inquire into visual ways of knowledge-making, visual techniques and the resulting artefacts, working with the understanding of, or working with a theoretical commitment to, the recognition of social abstractions.

Transform the essence of your cherished tunes into stunning, personalized wall art that speaks directly to your heart and soul. Every such execution, as targeting, is potentially and tendentially lethal, for by taking aim at its object, it isolates that object from its relation to its surroundings, removing everything that might distract its aim from the place it seeks to secure: that is, to occupy and to appropriate. i] I hope the reader will bear with me if at times it seems like there is a lot of use of the word ‘abstract’, and perhaps in places that feel unnecessary – for example, in saying ‘an abstract geometrical grid’. The south Pennines by Angela SmythThis work took six months to complete, eventually filling six large canvases of 3 × 2.Frame your accomplishments and have pride in your unique story, or gift this wonderful feeling to the people you love. Using maps to create complex visual understandings of the world is an activity that most of us are so used to that we do not tend to consider how the maps we read help us form these understandings.