The City‘The Hidden City’

For this topic I have been researching the physical

city.

Exploring the similarities between maps and human body cells.

I want to show the links between the city and the

people inside it.My map.

How different are the microscopic view

of a tongue and a mountain range?

The links between human cells and the city are more intertwined then I first thought.Over the past few weeks I have research

many artist that have explored similar topics.

A fixed neuron and the Tokyo subway map aren't very different either .

Sam Loman

The artist created an illustration on the inner structure and workings of the human body using the different systems (arterial, digestive, muscular,

respiratory, etc.) and reworking them to look like a subway map.

( just-sam.com )

Jonathon Rosen

Johnathon is an illustrator from America. His work reminded me

of the physical definition of a mind map.

Johnathon Rosen’s work reminded me of the maps of the body like that used in reflexology and massage.

I thought it would be quite interesting to create an image based on this idea, by painting a map onto someone, like the body paint used for Gotye’s video for the song ‘Somebody that I used to know’. (below)

Census Maps of Dating Keywords

These keyword maps by R. Luke Dubois

associate each town with the terms most

often used by locals to describe themselves

and their desired partners on their

online dating profiles.

Ed Fairburn

Ed Fairburn is a Welsh artist, based in Cardiff, who creates faces in the maps, I just loved this idea and would like to explore it in my own work.

Kumi Yamashita

This is an artist I have admired for a while now, she is from New York and is known prominently for her shadow scultures. However, she also creates beautiful portraits using only black thread and nails mounted on a white board.

From looking at Yamashita work thought it would be interesting to use materials other then string to create images. I had thought of using chewing gum.

On our trip to London last week I found the artist, Georgina Starr, who created this brain out of chewed gum.

Head Sculpture by Nikki Rosato

Artist Nikki Rosato removes the land masses, leaving nothing but

the roads and rivers behind, reinforcing the paper with wire as necessary. Rosato told Wired

UK: “Through the removal of the

land masses, the places almost become ambiguous since all of the text is lost.

Unless someone really knows the roads and highways, it is almost impossible to identify

the place.”

Map Portraits by Matthew CusickMatthew Cusick cuts apart maps to create collage portraits. The Dallas, Texas artist collects maps and cuts

them apart according to colour and shade.

But the particular maps chosen also have meaning in reference to the

subject, he says. “The maps I choose for each work

relate to that person’s timeline and history. I’ll use these maps as a

surrogate for paint but also as a way to expand the limits of representational

painting. Each map fragment is employed both as a brush stroke and a unit of information. The human form acts as a matrix in which inlaid maps

from different places and times coalesce into a narrative.”

Dan Mountford

This photographer I came across on flicker, he uses double exposure and Photoshop to combine the portraits and the buildings,

Patterns in Pieces of Maps

Artist Shannon Rankin uses little discs of maps to create

installations, collages and drawings

“that use the language of maps

to explore the connections among geological and biological

processes, patterns in nature, geometry and anatomy. Using a

variety of distinct styles I intricately cut, score, wrinkle,

layer, fold, paint and pin maps to produce revised versions that often become more like the

terrains they represent.”

Maps, Reorganized

Armelle Caron takes the components that make up a city and lays them

out according to size for a more tidy-looking result.

The French artist displays the original maps

alongside the decontextualized shapes.

Crime Rates as Topographic Maps

Such hidden ‘landscape features’ are revealed when the city’s crime

statistics are analysed as a 3D topographic map.

Data visualization engineer Doug McCune

shows how the city’s notorious hills can shift according to the type of crime, from larceny and

vandalism to robbery and assault.”

ArcGIS“ArcGIS is a geographic information system for working with maps and geographic information. It is used for: creating and using maps; compiling geographic data; analysing mapped information’’

On researching Doug McCunes art work I was curious as to how he created his maps, and on asking around I was told about ArcGIS which is, basically, the geologist's Photoshop.

‘’Artist uses live cells to create new form of

design’’Wanting to relink the visual map and that found in our own bodies, came across an article in the ‘The Telegraph’ about a new technique which records the shapes made by human cells as they react in the body.

• The top image is HL60 cells found in the blood

• The bottom image is the hunger hormone filmed for 20 mins.

(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/8383363/Artist-uses-live-cells-to-create-new-form-of-design.html )

Bacteria Art

Although this portrait looks digital it is created using about 4000 Petri-dishes.

A work by Austrian media artist Gerfried Stocker and molecular biologist Reinhard

Nestelbacher.

The works plays with the border between living world and the digital world, the portrait seems to be digital but it lives

and dies during the exhibition.

GFPixel