Mapping the Invisible

Mapping the Invisible: Textual Wandering

Mapping the Invisible: Self-Portrait — Self-Planet Map

My planetary self portrait isn’t looking so barren anymore.  It’s now more of a goofy collage than anything else, but progress is progress.  One thing that could be tweaked, in addition to the rough edges on the photo clippings and…

Mapping the Invisible: Conference Map Pt. 1 Concepts

For my conference project, which is meant to represent an invisible event, I decided that I wanted to investigate an event that would be considered implicit to my explicit thoughts/actions. This way, motivations behind such actions would be forced to…

Mapping the Invisible: Conference Project Draft #2 Mapping the Song

For my conference project, I mapped a recording of Nina Simone’s “My Baby Just Cares For Me”. My initial goal was to bridge the sensory experiences of visual art and music – why do we restrict our experience of different…

Mapping the Invisible: Conference Project Draft #1 Mapping the Song

For my conference project, I plan to create a visualization of something that we all take in on a daily basis, and experience through a variety of senses, but never manage to put into a concrete, tactile format: a song….

Mapping the Invisible: Conference—A Map of Illicit Flows

**having trouble uploading more attachments right now, please hold…** On the “draw anything” part of the interview worksheet for this class, I remember drawing a very offhanded illustration of how I saw the process of money laundering. It’s pretty weird,…

Mapping the Invisible: Conference Project — A Narrative Map of the Invisible.

My conference project maps an invisible, imagined geography. It is a choose your own adventure/scavenger hunt hybrid which leads the participants to inhabit an invisible forest which overlays the campus landscape. My project changed overtime because I initially planned to…

Mapping the Invisible: Happiness at SLC

  My map defines the process of trying to calculate the happiness of Sarah Lawrence’s campus. I am in Adam Brown’s Psychological Science of Happiness class and for my conference project I administered a survey to attempt to map the…

Mapping the Invisible: Conference Project — Self Portrait Redux

For my conference project I decided to revisit the self portrait assignment from the beginning of the semester.  A cut-and-paste collage method was all I could really manage at that time, and the resulting image was one of the goofiest…

Mapping the Invisible: Conference Project Draft # 1 — Mapping Relationships to Infection and Disease

Mapping the Invisible: Conference Project NYC: A Study of Light

My map defines the invisible process of the way in which natural light adds to the beauty and theatricality of specific buildings in New York City. I feel as though the sunlight that streams in through the windows of these…

Mapping the Invisible: Conference Project — A Map of the Ordinary

My map defines the invisible process of the Ordinary. Kathleen Stewart’s depiction of this concept in her ethnography Ordinary Affects inspired my attempt to adapt this into the format of a map. As an anthropologist, Stewart attempts to illustrate life…

Mapping the Invisible: Revolutionaries — (Counterrevolutionary Splinter Group?): Post-Mortem

[The site seen from the main path] My marker offers a sort of communication in an otherwise unused space on campus, combining dissonant elements such as the technology of the QR code compared to the simple wood. Additionally, the QR…

Mapping the Invisible: Conference Post #1 — Overwhelmed by Fact

My conference project is centered around the theme of being overwhelmed by facts, more specifically statistics concerning the state of Syria and Iraq during their “war” with the IS. On TV and through other media sources we are reminded of…

Mapping the Invisible: Conference Project Draft # 1 — Mapping Freelance Media Production

I started working in film when I was sixteen, and became really obsessed with keeping track of my ‘network,’ aka the contacts I’ve acquired through my working in freelance. I’ve done this in order to jump on it if these contacts…

Mapping the Invisible: Conference Project Draft #1 — Mapping Morbidity and Bodily Alteration

Mathilde and Simon, for their conference project, have created a set of uniforms to use as wearable maps. The uniforms are a short and T-shirt set in all black. The shirt have a grid of holes. The mapping project, will…

Mapping the Invisible: Conference Project Draft #1 — A Narrative Map of the Imaginary

My project is a hybrid narrative- choose your own adventure- scavenger hunt. Participants will read the story in pieces and make decisions about how to navigate the landscape. They will be given a map which will help them to determine…

Mapping the Invisible: Conference Project Draft #1 — Mapping The Topography of Film

For my conference project I have decided to map the invisible topography of film through an automatic drawing process. The photo I inserted is from a collage and drawing I did when watching The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and…

Mapping the Invisible: Conference Project Draft #1 — Mapping Light

My map defines the invisible process of the way in which natural light adds to the beauty and theatricality of specific buildings in New York City. I feel as though sunlight that streams in through the windows of these architectural…

Mapping the Invisible: Conference Project Draft #1 — Fear

For my final project, I will be creating another 40×40 map exploring fear. The map will be divided into four different layers, with the center most point being the a depiction of ‘the self’. Each ring on the map represents a…