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Next weekend, as part of the Art and Cartography symposium, the exhibition “zoomandscale” will take place at the Academy of Fine Arts and Kunsthalle Wien project space karlsplatz.

We participate with 2 projects in the exhibition at Kunsthalle project space:

• the animation movies we did last year and
• the horizontal projected interactive map.

The opening is on Friday evening, celebrated with 4 hour presentation block of all participating art projects (no comment on that), and somehow reserved for symposium attendees – there is an entry fee for public visitors. Saturday and Sunday it’s open to the public, without entry fees.

Basically I’ll be there during the weekend, but not all the time. If you would like to meet and hear some details and backgrounds about the projects, please drop me a note (or comment) before and we figure something out.

Below is all the official information about the event:

“zoomandscale”

The exhibition „zoomandscale“ in the context of the symposium „Art and Cartography – Cartography and Art“ shows a range of international artists concerned with maps in a wider sense. The exhibition presents a
variety of positions oscillating between artistic cartography and cartographic art which put into perspective the normative claim of strictly scientific cartography.
Knowing that the map is not the territory but its interpretation we allow different readings of territorial representations. In fact, artists´ maps may capture issues which cartographers´ “scientific” maps would never describe. Whereas the scientific attempt to describe the world makes a normative claim by using rational systems like longitude and latitude, artistic methods use opposite approaches by challenging or ignoring these coordinates. They may even take the liberty to shift points of reference to unexpected grounds. This is what makes maps so intriguing: they communicate different views of our world and help us understand its complexity.
The exhibition “zoomandscale” takes a closer look at the relation between objectivity and interpretation and presents works ranging from maps as reflection of the individual, up to studies of social fields and cityspaces. “zoomandspace” raises the question how to describe places as reference points for strategies of orientation and how maps as metaphors can describe spatial, social and psychological realities.

Thursday 31.01.2008
Academy of Fine Arts, Aula
Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna
18:00h Gallery Opening

Peter Dykhuis [CA], Wolfgang Fiel [AT],
Gabu Heindl [AT], Christian Mayer [AT],
Manuela Mourao [US], Nasrine Seraji, [FR/AT],
Nicole Six & Paul Petritsch [AT], Ludo Slagmolen [NL],
Laurene Vaughan [AU], Ruth Watson [NZ]

Opening hours exhibtion [free entry]
Friday 01.02.2008 13-18:00h
Saturday 02.02.2008 13-21:00h
Sunday 03.02.2008 13-18:00h

Friday 01.02.2008
Kunsthalle Wien project space karlsplatz, Auditory
Treitlstraße 2, 1040 Vienna
18:00h Gallery Opening
Presentation / Discussion [entry: reduced fee]
Helen Chang / Stefan Gruber [AT], Wolfgang Fiel [AT],
Theresa Häfele [AT], Maria Holter [AT], Hosoya Schaefer
Architects [CH], Sabine Müller-Funk [AT], Waltraud Palme [AT],
probosics [UK], Christian Spanring [AT], Titusz Tarnai +
Students of IKA [AT], Evamaria Trischak [AT]

Opening hours exhibition [free entry]
Saturday 02.02.2008, 16-24:00h
Sunday 03.02.2008, 13-19:00h

Friday 01.02. + Saturday 02.02.2008
Vienna University of Technology
Main Building, 1st floor, Boecklsaal
Karlsplatz 13, 1040 Vienna

Symposium [language: english, entry: registration fee]
Friday 01.02.2008, 08:30-17:30h
Saturday 02.02.2008, 09.00-18:00h

http://cartography.tuwien.ac.at/artandcartography