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In memory of BENOIT MANDELBROT 1924 — 2010 |
Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Dazed & Confused, Wired.UK, Fast Company |
Introduction Three years ago, Edge collaborated with The Serpentine Gallery in London in a program of "table-top experiments" as part of the Serpentine's Experiment Marathon . This live event was featured along with the Edge/Serpentine collaboration: "What Is Your Formula? Your Equation? Your Algorithm? Formulae For the 21st Century." Hans Ulrich Obrist, curator of the Serpentine, invited Edge to collaborate in his latest project, The Serpentine Map Marathon, produced in conjunction with DLD (Digital - Life - Design) Saturday and Sunday, 16 – 17 October, at Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR (Map). The multi-dimensional Map Marathon features non-stop live presentations by over 50 artists, poets, writers, philosophers, scholars, musicians, architects, designers and scientists. The two-day event takes place in London during Frieze Art Fair week. In addition to presenting maps by Edge contributors, the Marathon featured a panel of Edge contributors Lewis Wolpert, Armand Leroi, with myself as moderator, at the Royal Geographical Society. Click on images to enlarge or click here to begin slide show. |
![]() Eduardo Salcedo-Albarán Philosopher; Founder, Manager, METODO |
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![]() Tim Berners-Lee Engineer; Director, World-Wide Web Consortium |
![]() Sean Carroll Theoretical Physicist, Caltech; Author, From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ulitmate Theory Of Time |
![]() Douglas Rushkoff Media Analyst; Documentary Writer; Author, Program or Be Programmed |
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![]() Joan Chiao Assistant Professor, Brain, Behavior, and Cognition; Social Psychology; Northwestern University |
James Fowler Political Scientist, University of California, San Diego; Coauthor, Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives |
![]() Emanuel Derman Professor, Financial Engineering, Columbia University; Principal, Prisma Capital Partners; Former Head, Quantitative Strategies Group, Equities Division, Goldman Sachs & Co.; Author, My Life As A Quant |
![]() Gino Segré Physicist, University of Pennsylvania; Author, Faust In Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul Of Physics |
![]() Bruce Sterling Novelist; Author, The Caryatids |
![]() Laurence C. Smith Professor of Geography and Earth & Space Sciences, UCLA; Author,The World in 2050: Four Fources Shaping Civilization's Northern Future |
![]() Cesar Hidalgo Assistant Professor, The Media Laboratory, MIT; Faculty Associate, Center for International Development, Harvard |
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![]() George Dyson Science Historian; Author, Project Orion |
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![]() Neri Oxman Architect and Designer, MIT Media Lab |
![]() George F. Smoot Cosmologist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Recipient, The Nobel Prize For Physics 2006; Coauthor, Wrinkles in Time |
![]() John Baldessari Artist |
![]() Dave McKean Artist, designer and filmmaker |
![]() Christopher Stringer Research paleoanthropologist at The Natural History Museum, London; Author, Homo Britannicus |
![]() Xeni Jardin Tech Culture Journalist; Partner, Contributor, Co-editor, Boing Boing; Executive Producer, host, Boing Boing Video |
![]() Bruce Parker Visiting Professor, Center for Maritime Systems, Stevens Institute of Technology; author of The Power of the Sea: Tsunamis, Storm Surges, Rogue Waves and Our Quest to Predict Disasters |
![]() W. Daniel Hillis Physicist Computer Scientist; Chairman, Applied Minds, Inc.; author, The Pattern on the Stone |
![]() Alvy Ray Smith engineer and computer graphics pioneer; co-founder of Pixar; founder of Altamira Software |
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![]() John D Barrow Cosmologist, Theoretical Physicist, Mathematician. He is currently Research Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge; Author, Cosmic Imagery: Key Images In The History of Science |
![]() Stewart Pimm Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology; Author, The World According to Pimm: a Scientist Audits the Earth |
Rodrigo Martinez Life Sciences Chief Strategist at IDEO |
![]() Garrett A. Lisi Independent Theoretical Physicist; author, "An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything" |
![]() George Church Professor, Harvard University, Director, Personal Genome Project |
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![]() Jonas Mekas Artist |
![]() Alexander Kluge Author and Film Director |
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![]() Richard Saul Wurman Architect; designer; Founder, TED conference |
![]() Olafur Eliasson Artist |
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![]() Albert Laszlo Barabasi Network scientist; Distinguished University Professor at Northeastern University; director, Center for Complex Network Research; Author, Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do |
![]() Aaron Koblin Artist and graphic designer; Technology Lead of Google's Creative Lab |
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![]() Timothy Taylor Archaeologist, University of Bradford; Author, The Artificial Ape Tom Frankland, Illustrator |
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![]() Gianluigi Ricuperati Writer and journalist |
![]() Tom Standage Writer and journalist; Digital Editor of The Economist |
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![]() Eric Weinstein Mathematician and Economist; Principal, Natron Group |
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INFOGRAPHIC OF THE DAY: THE POWER STRUCTURE OF A MEXICAN DRUG CARTEL
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SUEDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG
THE NEW AGE OF CARTOGRAPHY— FRONT PAGE THE FEIULLETON
THE ART OF MAPS [Die Kunst der Landkarten]
[Google Transtlation:] With pith helmet and ice axes, the men went into battle against the unknown. The victorious are now in the Hall of Fame. David Livingston, the missionary and explorer, the first European to see Victoria Falls and as its "discoverer", looks down graciously from his lush stucco frame at the guests of the Royal Geographical Society in London. The marathon was to be understood literally. In 20 hours were about 50 artists, architects, philosophers, scientists and musicians on the stage. After 15 minutes they were usually heruntergescheucht again, the next speaker was waiting. The British architect David Adjaye put on there about his typology of architecture in Africa, for which he has photographed ten years buildings in the 53 states. The skepticism about the truth of cards The philosopher Rosi Braidotti, who teaches at the Human Rights Institute at the University of Utrecht, pointed out that we owe the skepticism about the truth of cards by post-modernism. And the American literary agent John Brockman, founder of the influential Internet platform "Edge", showed different maps used in science are like. Many of them were indeed diagrams, such as the developmental biologist Lewis Wolpert made clear, but it would be in London not to spoil the fun. Thus one saw an intricate network of countless points of intersection, which made the sociologist Nicholas A. Christakis and political scientist James Fowler of the relationship between obesity and social contacts visible, and the gene pioneer J. Craig Venter gave what looked like an endless series of colorful building blocks: the map of the first synthetic composite heritage. It was the fifth time that Hans Ulrich Obrist chose this strength-sapping format of the race, an issue considered by as many points of view. After manifesto and poetry — the themes of the past two years — Obrist with this year's focus has, however, was a perfect landing. Few technologies seems to characterize the young century as the new cartography. This could already be at the DLD Conference this year in Munich from the start, when the curator ever been to a small group, a symposium cards held on: Whether designer, astronomer, or Internet artists — all spoke of the great changes that the digital cartography with them was initiated. While in London Obristgreatly expanded its guest list, showing that the marathon reflects a global development. Since 2005 when the U.S. internet company Google began its map service, Google Maps is almost omnipresent. From the once precious resource for a hero and ruler, the medium has become readily available for the masses, to be used by both experts and lay people. In the run up to the "Map Marathon" Obrist asked contemporary artists about their personal map of the 21 Asked century. Because Obrist, simply the greatest networker in the art world, is why he is the main curator of the world was titled as before, it was then much mail for the Serpentine Gallery . ... |
ARTS & CULTURE As we all catch our breath after last week's Frieze Art Fair, we talk to Edge's John Brockman about his Map Marathon in conjunction with the Serpentine Gallery TEXT BY DAVID HELLQVIST Not all the Frieze action took place in Regent's Park. Actually, a lot of the better art and arty activities could be seen and experienced around London town, whether it be in a rundown East End warehouse, or a massive Mayfair gallery. Or in the Royal Geographical Society, for that matter. The Serpentine put on another one of its stellar Marathon events, this year focused on 'maps', and invited artists, poets, musicians, schoalars, philosophers and architects, to mention but a few, came together to create maps for the 21st century. Edge, a collaborating group of intellectuals, were called in by Serpentine curator Hans Ulrich Obrist to assist in the Marathon, and here we give you a selection of maps created by its affiliates. ... [...] |
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ARTS & CULTURE As we all catch our breath after last week's Frieze Art Fair, we talk to Edge's John Brockman about his Map Marathon in conjunction with the Serpentine Gallery TEXT BY DAVID HELLQVIST Not all the Frieze action took place in Regent's Park. Actually, a lot of the better art and arty activities could be seen and experienced around London town, whether it be in a rundown East End warehouse, or a massive Mayfair gallery. Or in the Royal Geographical Society, for that matter. The Serpentine put on another one of its stellar Marathon events, this year focused on 'maps', and invited artists, poets, musicians, schoalars, philosophers and architects, to mention but a few, came together to create maps for the 21st century. Edge, a collaborating group of intellectuals, were called in by Serpentine curator Hans Ulrich Obrist to assist in the Marathon, and here we give you a selection of maps created by its affiliates. ... [...] |
THE WORLD'S BIGGEST GALLERY OF MAPS ...From noon until 10pm on both Saturday and Sunday, there were non-stop live presentations by more than 50 artists, scientists, poets, writers, philosophers, musicians, architects and designers. There were also special collaborations with the Edge community and with the DLD conference community run by Steffie Czerny and Marcel Reichart, whose excellent events I've written about here before. ... ... One of my favourite panels was run by John Brockman, the literary super-agent who runs the EDGE community of "some of the most interesting minds in the world". Together with Lewis Wolpert and Armand Leroi, he presented maps submitted by members of the EDGE community. So we got to see Kevin Kelly's internet; plus philosopher Eduardo Salcedo-Albarán's map of interconnections between Mexican drugs cartels. ... [...] |
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