Feb
27
6:00 pm18:00

Livingmaps Seminar: Cartographic Media and Art Practice - Emilio Vavarella 27th February 2025 (online)

Emilio Vavarella | Feb 27th 6pm UK online | Cartographic Media and Art Practice: New forms of counter-mapping

Tickets available HERE

There are countless kinds of maps and multiple ways of mapping, but each kind of map corresponds to a certain set of ideals that informs the work of the map maker and how a map can be used or misused. This talk articulates an understanding of counter-mapping based on a series of media art projects that adopt, develop, and exploit technological errors and glitches to subvert the logic, processes, and aesthetics of digital mapping technologies. 

Emilio Vavarella is an artist and researcher working at the intersection of interdisciplinary art practice, theoretical inquiry, and media experimentation. Vavarella is Assistant Professor of Media and Film Studies at Skidmore College and the current Artist in Residence at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. His work has been shown in prestigious venues, including the Venice Biennale, MAXXI Museum, Museo Reina Sofia, the Hermitage Museum, and The Photographers’ Gallery of London. His films have been screened at Toronto’s Images Festival, Torino Film Festival, Jeu de Paume, and at every major media art festival. Vavarella is a Harvard Horizons Scholar (2023) and the recipient of numerous fellowships, art prizes, and grants, including an Italian Council award (2019). His work is regularly discussed in art magazines and academic publications.

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Apr
24
to 26 Apr

More-than-human mappings - Livingmaps Network Conference 24-26th April 2025

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More-than-human mappings - Livingmaps Network Conference 24-26th April 2025

Stewart House, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Tickets available: HERE

Ideas about the ‘more-than-human’ have developed extensively over the past two decades, despite their longer histories, in various disciplines that have challenged the dissociation of humans from other species and things. This has attracted the attention of artists, activists, academics, policymakers and others. Many now agree that decentring the human is essential if we are to meet the pressing challenges of our world, in both local and global contexts.

Yet, only a small fraction of this work has used mapping practices to tell more-than-human stories, histories and practices, or used mapping to engage wider audiences with these issues. We believe that the time has come to gather together the threads of more-than-human mappings into a special event, to share our knowledge and ideas, to exchange good practice, and inspire each other. The conference will explore more-than-human ways of thinking about maps and of doing mapping; maps of the more-than-human; or embodied processes of mapping that attend to non-representational ideas of liveliness.

The programme includes talks, workshops/walks*, and an exhibition/drinks reception on the evening of Thursday 24th**.

The conference takes place at Stewart House, Senate House, which is an accessible venue. Please contact us at tickets@livingmaps.org.uk if you have accessibility, or any other requirements.

Teas and coffees will be provided.

* Workshops and walks are subject to a maximum capacity. Sign-up sheets will be made available at the start of the conference.

** If you would like to attend the Thursday evening exhibition and drinks reception please ensure you select this as an additional option at checkout (£5).

Please note that you do not need to purchase any tickets if you are presenting work or leading a workshop that has been accepted for the conference programme.

Livingmaps Network is a volunteer-run organisation and was established in 2013 to develop a network of researchers, community activists, artists and others with a common interest in the use of countermapping for social change, public engagement, critical debate and creative forms of community campaigning.

100% of ticket sales go towards the costs of running Livingmaps e.g. events, journal and website.

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