Close Up at a Distance
Mapping, Technology, and Politics
by Laura Kurgan

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Auteur(s)

Laura Kurgan

Uitgever

New York : Zone Books, 2013

Omvang

230 p., geïllustreerd, 23 cm.

ISBN

9781935408284

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The past two decades have seen revolutionary shifts in our ability to navigate, inhabit, and define the spatial realm. The data flows that condition much of our lives now regularly include Global Positioning System (GPS) readings and satellite images of a quality once reserved for a few militaries and intelligence agencies, and powerful geographic information system (GIS) software is now commonplace. These new technologies have raised fundamental questions about the intersection between physical space and its representation, virtual space and its realization. Close Up at a Distance records situations of intense conflict and struggle, on the one hand, and fundamental transformations in our ways of seeing and of experiencing space, on the other. Using digital spatial hardware and software designed for military and governmental use in reconnaissance, secrecy, monitoring, ballistics, the census, and national security, Kurgan engages and confronts the politics and complexities of these technologies and their uses. At the intersection of art, architecture, activism, and geography, she uncovers, in her essays and projects, the opacities inherent in the recording of information and data and reimagines the spaces they have opened up.

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Trefwoorden

surveillance , cartography , fear

Locatie in de bibliotheek

Kast 13 - 1: Cartografie

Extra thema's

Surveillance, Veiligheid, Angst / Surveillance, Security, Fear

Opmerkingen

Incl. Bibliographical References