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Notation + mapping, before Gibraltar

Datafield

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The datafield deliminates a potential ‘global’ foundation for further project development

”Even to point is always to point…somewhere; and this not only marks a place but it

makes it the subject of the particular attention that pointed there instead of…

somewhere else. The one who points: author, mapmaker; the place pointed: subject,

location; the particular attention: the aspect attended to, the theme – nothing more is

involved (and nothing less) in any map.”

Wood, Denis m. Fels, John: The Power of Maps, The Guildford Press, N.Y.C. 1992, s. 24

Example

”Houses are worse than people”, an article from New Scientist on diminishing average

household sizes / excalating growth in ressource demands

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Wikipedia information that the Gibraltar Government ‘pushes’ people with a low income

across the Spanish border by enforcing high housing standards by law.

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Information from (amongst others) the newspaper Information on Africans migrating to

Europe

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potentially a programme for an urban densification / low income housing project

Paulette Bernege, 1928, diagram fra Bernege, Paulette, Si les Femme faisaint les Maisons. Kilde: McLeod, Mary (red.), Charlotte Perriand – An Art of Living, Harry N. Abrams, N.Y.C. 2003

Notation + mapping, Gibraltar

Koreografi af en danseinstruktør fra Wolfenbüttel Daidalos 47, 1993, s. 66

Fra: Recueil de Contre dances mises en choregraphie par Ernest

August Jayme, Wolfenbüttel: Lannais 1717, s. 56

Louis Kahn, Urban space as place for movement, Studies for Sergei M. Eisenstein, The path taken by Vladimir Andrejevich from

Philadelphia, Pa., 1951-53 the Palace to the Cathedral in ”Ivan the Terrible”, 1942

Daidalos 47, 1993, s. 73 Daidalos 47, 1993, s. 78

Edward M. Muybridge, Woman Descending a stairway, 1887 (ø.); Woman Jumping over a Chair, 1883-87 (n.)

Daidalos 27, 1988, s. 65 (ø.); František Kupka 1871-1957. A Retrospective. Solomon R. Guggenheim, N.Y.C., 1975, s. 59

Etienne-Jules Marey, Fencer, 1882

František Kupka 1871-1957. A Retrospective. Solomon R. Guggenheim, N.Y.C., 1975, s. 56

Etienne-Jules Marey, Walking Horse


Etinenne-Jules Marey, Bird in Flight


Etienne-Jules Marey, Chronographic Study of Human Locomotion, 1887-88.


Robbert Flick, At Cambria A 010082401

Robbert Flick, Trajectories, Steidl Verlag 2004, s. 302-303

Robbert Flick, Bar Road C 010814 (udsnit)

Robbert Flick, Trajectories, Steidl Verlag 2004, s. 298-299 (297)

Robbert Flick, LD SV940520-#7 Oakwood Ave.

Robbert Flick, Trajectories, Steidl Verlag 2004, s.236-237

Robbert Flick, LD SV941220 Broadway SNW (udsnit)

Robbert Flick, Trajectories, Steidl Verlag 2004, s. 274-275 (273)

Kortlægning / Diagrammatisering

Mapping / Diagrammatization

Diagram (gr. di′agramma det (af linjer) omskrevne, figur) tegnemæssig skematisk

fremstilling af fx forholdet ml. klasser, talværdier, sproglige størrelser; skematisk

tegning af fx maskine, plante, hjerte

Gyldendals Fremmedordbog, 11. udg., 5. opl., Gyldendal 1960, 1993

Diagram (L; Gr. di′agram(ma) that is marked out by lines) 1. a figure, usually

consisting of a simple line drawing, made to accompany and illustrate a

geometrical theorem, mathematical demonstration, etc. 2. a drawing or plan that

outlines and explains the parts, operation, etc. of something: the diagram of a

machine. 3. a chart*, plan**, or scheme***.

Webster´s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Dilithium Press / Gramercy Books,

N.Y.C. 1989

As a creative practice, mapping pricipitates its most productive effects through a

finding that is also a founding; its agency lies in neither reproduction nor imposition

but rather in uncovering realities previously unseen or unimagined, even across

seemingly exhausted grounds. Thus, mapping unfolds potential; it remakes territory

over and over again, each time with new and diverse consequences. Not all maps

accomplish this however; some simply reproduce what is already known.

Corner, James, ”The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique, Invention”, in Denis (ed.), Mappings, Reaktion Books Ltd. London

1999, pp. 213-252.

”(…) every map facilitates some living by virtue of its ability to grapple with what is

known instead of what is merely seen, what is understood rather than what is no

more than sensed.”

Wood, Denis; Fels, John: The Power of Maps, The Guildford Press, N.Y.C. 1992, s. 7

The power inherent in the map lies in conveying a knowledge beyond the sum of the

many bits of information it encompasses. Local data are given new meaning, are

integrated into a set of relationships that bring forth new information about them, in an

interplay between the center and the periphery, empirical data and geometrical

construction.

Jakob, Christian, ”Mapping the Earth from Ancient Alexandria” i Cosgrove, Denis (ed.), Mappings, Reaktion Books Ltd. London 1999, p.32

(…) an abstract machine in itself is not physical or corporeal, any more than it is

semiotic; by function, not form (…).The diagrammatic or abstract machine does

not function to represent, even something real, but rather constructs a real that is

yet to come, a new type of reality.Deleuze, Gilles & Guattari Felix, 1987, A Thousand Plateaus. Athlone, London, 1992, pp. 141-142

”Abstrakte maskiner” benævnes maskiner, fordi de ikke – som f.eks. et arkiv – blot

noterer (dvs. repræsenterer) en virkelighed, men fordi de producerer en (ny)

virkelighed.

”Abstract maschines” are maschines in that they do not – as for example an archive

– merely contain (i.e. represent) a reality, but produce a (new) reality.

Konfrontationen af data kan i kortlægningen / diagrammatiseringen bringes til at

sige andet og mere end summen af enkelt-data.

In the map or diagram the confrontation of data is potentially “conveying a

knowledge beyond the sum of the many bits of information it encompasses”.

Jakob, Christian, ”Mapping the Earth from Ancient Alexandria” i Cosgrove, Denis (ed.), Mappings, Reaktion Books Ltd. London 1999,

p.32

Konfrontationen er betinget af den klare adskillelse; den klare adskillelse definerer

mellemrummet, der kan bringes til at ”tale”.

Uklare adskillelser og definitioner derimod udvisker mellemrummet; konfron-

tationen. Der udløses et behov for forklaring, formidling af sammenhæng.

Separation conditions confrontation; separation

defines the void that potentially can be made to ‘speak’

Lack of precision blurs or erases the void; the confrontation. A need for explanation

arises, filling in the void, establishing connection.

PRECISION

The hallucinatory effect derives from the extraordinary clarity and not from mystery

or mist. Nothing is more fantastic ultimately than precision.Robbe-Grillet on Kafka. Cit. fra: Hejduk, John, Mask of Medusa, Rizzoli int. Publishers, N.Y., p. 39

• data source (site) must be announced in maps and diagrams in order to

enable further investigation by others. Additionally it is the precontion of

any new or further development of notations; produced maps and diagrams.

• rules of production must be announced (examples: announcement of exact

registration time / timespan; use of scale; symbols, etc.). This preconditions any

new or further development of notations; produced maps and diagrams.

• before hand in maps and diagrams are given a subtitle naming the object (-s) of

the mapping / diagrammatization

• before hand in maps and diagrams are given a title naming the subject (theme)

of the mapping / diagrammatization

Example:

Title: Nosy trajectories

Subtitle: Stray dog (unleashed), stalked monday 20.03.06 9am-11am through

Gibraltar

Land Ordinance Act of 1785 (George Washington): The Survey Landscape 14 x 20”

Corner, J. & MacLean, A. S., Taking Measures Across the American Landscape, Yale Univ. Press 1996, s. 48.

Land Ordinance Act of 1785 (George Washington): Grid Correction Lines 14 x 20”

Corner, J. & MacLean, A. S., Taking Measures Across the American Landscape, Yale Univ. Press 1996,

s. 57.

Dry-Farming Strip 14 x 20”

”In the Northern Plains, strips of wheat run north and south,

alternating with strips that lie fallow in order to accumulate precious

water in these arid, windswept prairies. Sometimes a mile long and

only 140 feet wide, the planted strips protect the exposed fallow soil

from the drying and erosional effects of strong winds that blow from

the west. The ridge and furrow of plow lines mirror this orientation

with seed being sown in the protected and damper troughs. The

width of each band derives from a carefully gauged degree of

effective wind-shelter length for the fallow strips in combination

with the dimensions of harvester headers.”

Corner, J. & MacLean, A. S., Taking Measures Across the American

Landscape, Yale Univ. Press 1996, s. 125.

Pivot Irrigators I, 14 x 20”

”Sometimes a mile in diameter, these vast circles are

constructed using highly specialized survey

instruments to make their surfaces level. As the

water cools the circular area relative to its

surroundings, space satellites sometimes use the

resulting infrared temperature patterns as reliable

registration marks for orientation.”

Corner, J. & MacLean, A. S., Taking Measures Across

the American Landscape, Yale Univ. Press 1996, s.

90.

Windmill Topography, 14 x 20”

”The combination of high mountains and desert leads to dramatic

contrasts in air temperature and wind pressure. Atmospheric

inversions and turbulent airflows are common, resulting in high

winds (as strong as smog when winds subside). The energy that

these airflows yield is captured by strategically sited windmill

turbines.”



Contour Farming, 14 x 20”

”These striking landscapes of curves, rolls, and turns are

literally measured expreseions of the farmer´s elaborate

negotiations with topography, soils, and weather. A

dimensional vocabulary accompanies such measures,

including phrases such as slope tolerance, pitch, strike, plow

depth, plow line, overplow, cross-sow, swale and datum.”

Corner, J. & MacLean, A. S., Taking Measures Across the

American Landscape, Yale Univ. Press 1996, s. 131.

Cahokia Mounds along the Mississippi, Collinsville Ill., 14 x 20”

”The elaborate geometry at Cahokia suggests that the mounds

functioned as great symbols of perfection, platforms upon

which the most sacred rites would occur and within which the

dead where buried and made immortal – measures of

permanence across an otherwise undifferentiated, shifting

horizon.”



Hopi Horizon Calendar, 14 x 20”

”Hopi time is constructed by the

track of the sun across the

dramatically marked horizon. As the

sun rises and sets in the more

extreme location along the horizon

each day, and turns back at times of

solstice, the Hopi use the geological

callibrations across the distant

landscape as a timepiece, a calendar

to predict times for planting,

harvest, and religious ceremony.

The solstices are the most important

times of observation for the Hopi, as

the sun´s movement slows and rests

for a few days prior to returning

along the horizon and bringing in

the new season. If the sun were to

stay too long in its ”winter house”, a

long, cold winter followed by sprin g

frosts might delay planting and

damage young crops; whereas if it

failed to stay long anough in its

”summer house”, the growing

season might be too short for a

good harvest. Measured with

anticipation and hope, the track of

the sun along the horizon

constructs the varying rhythms of

being in time.”

Corner, J. & MacLean, A. S., Taking Measures

Across the American Landscape, Yale Univ. Press

1996, s. 158.

Hopi Cosmography, 14 x 20”

”Surrounded and watched over by

the four sacred mountains (to the

east, west, north, and south) and

oriented by a striking horizon of

distant cones and clefts, the Hopi

believe themselves to be duly

positioned to receive favorable

treatment from the gods.”

Corner, J. & MacLean, A. S.,

Taking Measures Across the

American Landscape, Yale Univ.

Press 1996, s. 157.

Spiral Calendar at Fajada Butte, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, 14 x

20”.

”Close to the summit of Fajada Butte, on a vertical cliff, an

arrangement of large stones shields two spirals, one large and one

small, drawn into the rock wall. With remarkable precision, the

morning sun on the day of summer solstice draws a ”dagger” of

bright light through the center of the larger spiral. At winter solstice,

two daggers of light exactly frame the outer edges of the spiral.

Times of equinox are also recorded. Moreover, at times of lunar

standstill a dark shadow bisects the spiral. There are also ten turns

of the spiral on the left of center and nine on the right, paralleling

the alternation of ten- and nine-year ecliptic cycles. The total of

ninteen turns parallels the lunar declination cycle, which is slightly

less than nineteen years. Shrine and observatory, the calendrical

spiral at Fajada Butte both measures and embodies the unity of

natural and human time.”



Acoma Pueblo, Acoma, New Mexico, 14 x 20”

”The orientation and depth of the houses are such that the

dwellings are shaded during the summer but penetrated

deeply by light and warmth in the winter. Furthermore, the

tiered organization exposes a large surface for solar gain in

the winter, wherein the low angle of winter sunlight is

absorbed by thick, heat-retentive clay walls. The three-story-

high wall on the northern side is especially thick and has few

windows or doors, thereby protecting inhabitants from cold

winter winds. During both winter and summer, the third-floor

rooms are ablaze in the red light of sunsets. From afar, the city

beckons. From within, the thermal radiation of warmth stored

in the thick walls helps the family sleep comfortably through

the cold desert nights.”



Longhouse Cave, Mesa Verde, Colorado, 14 x 20”

Longhouse is strategically oriented to the south, but the

blazing summer sun enters the cave only early in the

mornig. Large areas of the cave remain in deep shadow for

most of the day. In winter, however, the lower altitude and

azimuth of the sun allows light to enter the cave

immediately at sunrise and to remain there until sunset.

The massive sandstone formation absorbs the heat and

radiates it slowly during the cold nights. Furthermore, the

disposition of buildings within the cave is such that daily

activities, like milling corn, cooking, eating, playing, and

dancing, move across the cave according to the daily and

seasonal movement of temperature, light, and shadow.”



Further examples:

R:/Institut_I/D_0506_II/Gibraltar/map_examples

1st presentation, Construction #4

Construction #1 + #2 + #3

15th IFHP Film/Video Competition

Main theme

• Urban life, Boundaries and Transformations

Three sub-themes

• living over the border

• deconstructing suburbia

• the invisible city

5 member international jury.

Prizes

1st – 4.000,00 EURO

2nd – 3.000,00 EURO

3rd – 2.000,00 EURO

Submission dead-line: 25th of August 2006.

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