Advanced Digital Project: Creative Cartography

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Historically, mapmaking was a privilege of the ones in power, and more recently a craft of trained professionals. Today, anyone can make and publish their personally annotated maps online. In this class we will investigate and participate in these new participatory mapmaking paradigms, making our own artistic and conceptual mapping projects using the Google Maps/Earth APls, HTML5 and JavaScript. The class explores psychogeography, critical cartography, locative media, real time data, and social and mobile media.