Kirkland Art Center Lecture: Off the Map
Friday, February 26, 2010, 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Henry Auditorium
Henry Members, Kirkland Arts Center Members FREE / General Admission $5
The Off the Map lecture coincides with an exhibition of the same title at the Kirkland Art Center, on display from February 12 – March 10, 2010. Exploring the intersection of art and science, Off the Map_ examines how new geospatial mapping technologies inspire artistic creation in mapping experiences. Reflecting the shift in mapping practices, the lecture surveys artists who are appropriating new cartographic techniques and publishing the communication capabilities of maps. Speakers include organizer Jill Hardy, Lize Mogel, and Seattle artist Claude Zervas.
Lize Mogel is an interdisciplinary artist who works with the interstices between art and cultural geography. She inserts and distributes cartographic projects into public space and via publications. She is co-editor of the book/map collection An Atlas of Radical Cartography and co-curator of the traveling exhibition An Atlas. She also co-curated Genius Loci, an exhibition of conceptual mappings of Los Angeles (Sci-Arc, Los Angeles, California Museum of Photography, Riverside). She has worked with groups including the Center for Land Use Interpretation and the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest. Exhibitions include the Gwangju Bienniale (South Korea,) common room (NYC), Casco (Utrecht), and Experimental Geography (touring). She has received grants from the Jerome Foundation, the LEF
Foundation, the Graham Foundation, the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Danish Arts Council for her work.