Tag: invisible

Mapping the Invisible: Happiness at SLC

My map defines the process of determining where people are most happy on our campus. It also maps the personal, social, and intellectual fulfillment according to where people live based on the results of a survey I administered for my…

Mapping the Invisible: The Grid of Uncertainty

For my conference project I wanted to go off of my previous map. I was happy with my self-portrait but finally I realized it had too much information. My idea about national identity didn’t come across as much as I…

Mapping the Invisible: Conference Project — Map of Feelings

My final map: The “making the invisible visible” idea of my map is visualizing the inner world and let the feelings blend into the real world. The real world is presented through recording myself through camera. It is the catching…

Mapping the Invisible: Conference Project Draft #1 — Map of Feelings

This is the sketch of my map surface: My process of doing this conference project was quite different from my usual routine. I used to make plans and tried to think everything through before starting. However, this time I tried to reduce…

Mapping the Invisible: Conference Project Draft #2 A Map of Fear

In a previous draft of this map, the main focus of my project was to use a series of circles, with each layer of the circle representing a different fear. The closer to the center of the circle, the deeper…

Mapping the Invisible: Overwhelmed by Fact

When I began with this installation project, I was very daunted by both the size, and the pressure to deliver such a poignant message. My installation hopes to “overwhelm by fact”. Once you enter you are faced with a monitor…

Mapping the Invisible: Conference Project — A Map of Lost Countries

This map aims to make visible countries which, for whatever reason, no longer exist. These countries might have been annexed, voluntarily become part of another country, or have been secessionist states that were quickly dissolved. Some, like Transylvania, still exist…

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 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: 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 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…

Mapping the Invisible: Conference Project Draft #1 — Manderley Map

My map shows the way in which the narrator emotionally views the space in which she’s inhabiting; it challenges the question of presence- demanding that one consider the elements that combine in order to create someone’s presence: are they solely…

Mapping the Invisible: Conference Project Draft #1 — Lost Countries

(This is a close up, the full image does not adequately convey what I have done so far) I was inspired for my conference project by a plot element from G. Willow Wilson’s comic Air. The country of her story never…