Project #3: Artistic Mapping

Conduct research on a topic of personal interest and present this research in the form of a map using Photoshop. Mapping is a way to represent space, information and concepts into a condensed document. While it is generally considered the domain of cartographers and scientific researchers, there are many artists who consider their practice closely related to mapping. As an artist, your choices of what to map are unrestricted. You may choose to map an idea, yourself, a political or historical issue, a material, a space, a process, or even a fictional topic of your own devices. How does your map function as an artistic conveyance of information to others?


Project Proposal Description

Proposals should describe the main ideas / concepts you are interested in and the ways you plan to make them visible in your project. What do you plan to do and why is it interesting? Why does this particular subject interest you? What artists and/or thinkers have influenced your ideas? Why is it appropriate to address this subject matter through digital imaging? How will your project be original? What do you imagine the end result will look like? How will you arrange the elements of your work to best convey your ideas? Proposals are tools of creativity. It is expected that ideas will change and evolve along the way.