Conversation: Serpentine Gallery ~ Edge: Map Marathon
Mapping successive layers of historical narratives on to contemporary physical structures and performances
Raycounting: curvature guided by light
This is a map of the space-time for our observable universe. It shows two of three spatial dimensions and the time. It shows the beginning of time to the present epoch. You have to imagine the third spatial dimension as the continuation of the sphere of space around us for which the two dimensions show a circular cross section.
The USA constitution delegates two Senators to each state irrespective of population, allowing less populated states to exert an undue influence in American politics, the following depicts by physical size the voting influence of the America states, eg the less populous the larger the depiction, the more populous the smaller the depiction, the size of one's vote.
Swamp: This is a found photograph. Its probably from a movie. It shows where the swamp is. I would guess Swamp Thing, but who knows.
The first surface map of a planet outside our Solar System. The planet is a gas giant orbiting a star 60 light years away. What you see is a very crude image of its extremely heated atmosphere. The map is not from a direct picture, instead it was reconstructed from a subtle variation in the light over a planet's orbit.
Map of the human Heart - created for the novelist Ialin Sinclair for his novel London Orbital
Redrawing the map of Great Britain from a network of human interactions Do regional boundaries defined by governments respect the more natural ways that people interact across space? This paper proposes a novel, fine-grained approach to regional delineation, based on analyzing networks of billions of individual human transactions. Given a geographical area and some measure of the strength of links between its inhabitants, we show how to partition the area into smaller, non-overlapping regions while minimizing the disruption to each person’s links. We tested our method on the largest non-Internet human network, inferred from a large telecommunications database in Great Britain. Our partitioning algorithm yields geographically cohesive regions that correspond remarkably well with administrative regions, while unveiling unexpected spatial structures that had previously only been hypothesized in the literature. We also quantify the effects of partitioning, showing for instance that the effects of a possible secession of Wales from Great Britain would be twice as disruptive for the human network than that of Scotland. ??Image Credit Mauro Martino. Credits Carlo Ratti, Stanislav Sobolevsky, Francesco Calabrese, Clio Andris, Jonathan Reades, Mauro Martino, Steven H Strogatz
This image was painted on the wall of a cave in Vilafames, Spain, about 15000 years ago. When I came across it in 2006 I was taken aback to see its resemblance to a drawing I had made a few years earlier to illustrate the interiority -- and privacy -- of consciousness. Was the Neolithic artist giving us a map of what it's like to be human?
During the earliest periods of human occupation, the geography of Britain differed considerably from that of today. Britain was not an island but a peninsula of the north-west European continent. 900,000 years ago there was no English Channel, but a precursor of the river Thames flowed, far to the north of its present valley, reaching the North Sea at Happisburgh. This land bridge was the point of entry into Britain for migrating animals, including humans. Source: Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project http://www.ahobproject.org/