Close Up at a Distance

Auteurs

• Laura Kurgan

Paramètres

• 238 pages
• 9 heures de lecture

• Art / Culture
• Cartes et voyages
• Géographie & Topographie
• Nonfiction
• Sciences politiques & Politique

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"The past two decades have seen revolutionary shifts in our ability to navigate, inhabit, and define the spatial realm. The data flows that condition much of our lives now regularly include Global Positioning System (GPS) readings and satellite images of a quality once reserved for a few militaries and intelligence agencies, and powerful geographic information system (GIS) software is now commonplace. These new technologies have raised fundamental questions about the intersection between physical space and its representation, virtual space and its realization. In Close Up at a Distance, Laura Kurgan offers a theoretical account of these new digital technologies of location and a series of practical experiments in making maps and images with spatial data. Neither simply useful tools nor objects of wonder or anxiety, the technologies of GPS, GIS, and satellite imagery become, in this book, the subject and the medium of a critical exploration

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• Année de publication: 2013
• Reliure: (rigide)