Counter Cartographies with Lize Mogel | MIT Center for Civic Media
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Artist and designer Lize Mogel came to the Center for Civic Media to discuss “Counter-cartography” a practice that uses #maps and mapping to challenge the mainstream narrative of a site or history, from a political or activist perspective.
Liz Mogel, avec Alexis Bhagat, est aussi l’éditrice d’un ouvrage génial : « An Atlas of Radical Cartography »
An Atlas of Radical Cartography is a collection of 10 maps and 10 essays about social issues from globalization to garbage; surveillance to extraordinary rendition; statelessness to visibility; deportation to migration. The map is inherently political— and the contributions to this book wear their politics on their sleeves.
An Atlas of Radical Cartography provides a critical foundation for an area of work that bridges art/design, cartography/geography, and activism. The maps and essays in this book provoke new understandings of networks and representations of power and its effects on people and places. These new perceptions of the world are the prerequisites of social change.
MAPS | An Architektur | the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) | Ashley Hunt | Institute for Applied Autonomy with Site-R | Pedro Lasch | Lize Mogel | Trevor Paglen & John Emerson | Brooke Singer | Jane Tsong | Unnayan
ESSAYS | Kolya Abramsky | Maribel Casas-Cortes & Sebastian Cobarrubias | Alejandro De Acosta | Avery F. Gordon | Institute for Applied Autonomy | Sarah Lewison | Jenny Price, Jane Tsong, DJ Waldie, Ellen Sollod, Paul S. Kibel | Heather Rogers | Jai Sen | Visible Collective & Trevor Paglen
EDITORS | Lize Mogel & Alexis Bhagat
Trevor Paglen and IAA
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Beginning in late 2004, shocking news reports of CIA operatives illegally kidnapping suspected terrorists and flying them to foreign countries for torture and interrogation began to enter the public conscience. However, lacking any visual image to connect with the allegations, public debate around the issue was quickly subsumed by more spectacular news events. Trevor Paglen and the Institute for Applied Autonomy are working to fill this void through the production of a website that provides a way for the general public to track the movements of these CIA torture planes as they enter and exit American and European airspace.