ICA Regional Cartographic Conference: The First Asian Cartographic Conference https://asiacarto.org/2024/ Parallel session proposal (call for participation) AsiaCarto 8-10 Dec 2024, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Title: Art, Cartography & Experimental Practices Session Chair  Dr. Taien Ng-Chan, Department of Cinema and Media Arts, York University, Canada Session Description The ICA Commission on Art & Cartography’s current terms of reference include a mandate to advance the field of artistic and experimental cartographies, including but not limited to such subfields as na ..read more

We packed so much into one day! We had four stimulating presentations about art-based approaches to mapping, and a lively group of participants. It was hands-on and really enriching. Thanks so much to everyone who joined us and helped to make it great! Check out some participant-created maps below ..read more

The Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts. Vol. 5 – Num. 1 – 2024 This issue of the journal intends to bring together the following: 1) essays on maps as an art form or on the aesthetics of maps (real and imaginary); 2) essays on the history of ideas concerning the representation of the world and the universe from a transhistorical and transcultural perspective; 3) essays on the philosophy of language concerning toponymy; 4) essays on linguistic relativism and geographical terms; 5) essays on the ontology of geographical notions; 6) essays on the relationship between mappin ..read more

Other Cartographies: A one-day workshop on art-based mapping practices Department of Rural Development – National Geo-spatial Information  Van der Sterr Building, 19 Rhodes Ave, Mowbray Cape Town, South Africa August 11, 2023, 10am-4pm No fee to attend, Registration required The goal of this workshop is to provide an intellectual and creative space to share different ideas around artistic methodologies of mapping and engaging with space and place, particularly those that challenge the status quo of capitalism, colonialism, extractive resource development (etc., the list is long ..read more

Other Cartographies: Pre-Conference Workshop in cape town, south Africa, August 11, 2023 Organized by the International Cartographic Association’s Commission on Art and Cartography Submission Deadline: June 15th, 2023 The ICC2023’s theme is SMART CARTOGRAPHY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. How can this theme be interpreted through Art? The Commission on Art & Cartography’s Terms of Reference include the directive to “advance the field of artistic and experimental cartographies, including but not limited to such subfields as narrative cartography, cinematic cartography, sensory and phenomenol ..read more

The Commission for Art & Cartography of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) seeks submissions for a special issue of the International Journal of Cartography to be published in the Spring of 20241. We seek a diversity of contributions that explore how dialogues and practices in art and cartography can create generative points of contact. Submissions may take a variety of forms, ranging from full length research articles to shorter creative interventions that rely heavily on visuals and other forms of media2. Topics may include, but are not limited to: Art practices that use ..read more

The Commission on Art & Cartography’s online workshop from the summer of 2020, called A Sense of Impending Doom: A Strata-Walk for Turbulent Times, caught the eye of editor Laura Bliss at Bloomberg’s CityLab. As a result, some of the maps from the Impending Doom workshop are featured in the new publication The Quarantine Atlas: Mapping Global Life Under COVID-19, along with an essay by Commission Chair Taien Ng-Chan about her own experiences dealing with the pandemic, the subsequent rise of anti-Asian hate, and the value found in mapping one’s own room. The book was published in April 202 ..read more

The Commission on Art & Cartography hosted the Show & Tell Pre-Conference Workshop on Monday, Dec. 13th (Dec. 14th for our Australian members) and saw 12 fantastic, intriguing, thought-provoking presentations in “Pecha-Kucha”-like fashion, starting with (as Vice-Chair Sharon Hayashi put it) “the more-than-human, moving from larger time spans towards the urban, morphing through software experiments before the ending on more directly political spatial battles.” A wonderful experience for all (recording below). Recording of the Pre-Conference Workshop of the 30th International Cartograph ..read more

Zoom grid photo from ArtCarto’s 2020 workshop “A Sense of Impending Doom” A Pre-Conference Workshop of the 30th International Cartographic Conference Organized by the Commission for Art & Cartography December 13, 2021 Synchronously ONLINE at 8-10PM CET (Florence, Italy) / 2-4PM EST (Toronto, Canada) / 11AM-1PM PST (Los Angeles, USA) / 6-8AM AEDT on Dec 14 (Melbourne, Australia) Check your time zone Zoom link will be sent before the workshop date. The workshop will begin with a series of short (7-8 minutes) “PechaKucha”-like slide presentations* of your works-in-progress, project ideas, the ..read more

from “A Sense of Impending Doom: A Strata-Walk for Turbulent Times” The International Cartographic Association (ICA) Commission on Art & Cartography invites you to participate in their ICC2021 Pre-Conference Workshop: Catharsis and Connection Through Art and Cartography Date: December 13th, 2021 Place: Florence, Italy and simultaneous Zoom Call for Participation: In the summer of 2020, the Commission for Art and Cartography (ArtCarto) of the International Cartographic Society, in partnership with the Hamilton Perambulatory Unit (HPU), presented A Sense of Impending Doom: A Strata-Walk f ..read more